English

Verb

shat

1. simple past tense and past participle of ****
   • 1999, Julian O'Neill, quoted in Peter Moss, "Let He Without Sin Kick The First Goal", in Workers Online number 12 (1999 May 7):

     Hey Schlossie [=Jeremy Schloss], I just shat in your shoe.

   • 2009, Rob Dunn, Every Living Thing:

     We all lived in small communities, hunted, and foraged. We shat in the woods.

References

1. ↑ Bruce L. Derwing, Royal Skousen, Productivity and the English Past Tense, in The Reality of Linguistic Rules, page 202
2. ↑ Survival of the Strongest, in Studies in the History of the English Language V (2010, ISBN 3110220326), page 101: What may come as a surprise, depending on the framework in which one operates, is that sit must have been largely responsible for the preterite shat of **** and probably the preterite spat of spit. **** should conjugate shite~shote, and spit was originally weak (OED).
3. ↑ Harper, Douglas (2001), “Etymology Online Dictionary: '****'”, in Etymology Online Dictionary, Douglas Harper, retrieved 2009-04-13

Anagrams

• hast, hats, Tash

Albanian

Alternative forms

• shatë

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *śaktā, from Proto-Indo-European *sē̆k ‎(“to cut”). Cognate to Latin secula ‎(“sickle”), sacena ‎(“pick-axe of the pontifix”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃat/

Noun

shat m (indefinite plural shata)

1. heart-shaped hoe, mattock

References

1. ↑ Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997, p.358

Hausa

Noun

shât f

1. shirt

Kriol

Etymology

English shot

Noun

shat

1. attempt