Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *kṣati, from Proto-Indo-European *k̂Þei 'to settle'. Compare Romanian sat ‎(“village, countryside”), Avestan [script needed] ‎(šaēiti, “stays, dwells”), Sanskrit क्षेत्र ‎(kṣḗtra, “estate, residence”), Ancient Greek κτίσις ‎(ktísis, “a founding, foundation, a doing, an act, a creating”), Armenian šēn ‎(šēn, “inhabited farm, village”). An alternative etymology suggests Byzantine Greek φουσσάτον ‎(phoussáton, “citadel”), from Late Latin fossātum ‎(“entrenchment, place enclosed by a ditch”), from Latin fossa ‎(“ditch”),