From an earlier*skerss, viapalatalization (sk >šķ) and lengthening of a falling tone vowel followed byr (èr >ēr), fromProto-Baltic*skersas, fromProto-Indo-European*skersos <*skert-so-s, from a stem*ker-,*sker-(“to cut”) with an addedt (whence also the verbs̆ķērt,q.v.). Cognates includeLithuaniansker̃sas(“transverse, crooked”),Old Prussiankerscha,kērschan,kirsa,kirscha,kirschan(“over”),Proto-Slavic*čerzъ <*čersъ (Russianче́рез(čérez,“over, through; transverse, across, crosswise”),Bulgarianчрез(črez)),Ancient Greekἐπικάρσιος(epikársios,“transverse, crosswise; lateral”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ʃcɛ̀ːɾs]

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šķērss (definitešķērsais,comparativešķērsāks,superlativevisšķērsākais,adverbšķērsi,šķērsu,šķērsām)

1. transverse,transversal,crosswise(placed in such away that itcrosses something)

   šķērss plīsums ―transverse,crosswise crack, rupture

   šķērsas taisnes ―transverse straight lines (not situated on the same plane)

   ja viena no divām taisnēm atrodas plaknē, bet otra taisne krusto šo plakni punktā, kas nepieder pie pirmās taisnes, tad dotās tasines iršķērsas... cauršķērsām taisnēm nevar novilkt plakni ―if one of two straight lines is on a plane and the other crosses this plane at one point that does not belong to the first straight line, then the given straight lines aretransverse... throughtransverse lines one cannot draw a plan

2. (figuratively)wrong,incorrect

   nu mūsu lieta ir pavisamšķērsa ―our case is completelywrong

   atmiņās ir kāds solis, kuru tu spēris, nedomādams par sekām, un šis pirmais solis pratis iegriezt visu gaitu pavisamšķērsās sliedēs ―in memory there is a certain step which you took, not thinking about consequences, and this first step managed to turn the whole walk into completelywrong rails (= into thewrong direction)

• (of "transverse"):šķērsenisks
• (of "incorrect"):aplams,nepareizs

• škērsenis,šķērsenisks
• šķērskoks
• šķērslīnija
• šķērssija

• šķērsis
• šķērslis
• šķērsot
• šķērst

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