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Q. saucarë n. “doing or making a thing very badly” (Category: Wrong)

Q. saucarë, n. “doing or making a thing very badly” (Category: Wrong)

A word for “doing or making a thing very badly” appearing in Definitive Linguistic Notes (DLN) from 1959, illustrating the use of the prefix sau- “badly”. It can be contrasted with loikare “mistaken action” and uskare “doing wrong” from the same document. These probably all function as nouns, but likely originate as infinitives of the verb car- “do”.

Reference ✧ PE17/183 ✧ saucare “doing or making a thing very badly”

Elements

sau- “very badly” ✧ PE17/183
-carë “action, doing, making” ✧ PE17/183 (#care)