scarpa

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Italian word scarpa comes from Proto-Indo-European *kor-, and later Proto-Germanic *skarpaz (Sharp.)

*kor- (Proto-Indo-European)

*(s)kerb(h) (Proto-Indo-European)

*skarpaz (Proto-Germanic)

Sharp.

skarpo (Gothic)

scarpa (Italian)

(architecture) juxtaposition of a wall inclined to the base of a tower or a boundary wall (buttress). (protective covering for the foot) shoe.

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