skaz

From Russian сказ (skaz, “tale”).

skaz (uncountable)

1. A literary technique wherein characters are mainly identified by the linguistic specificities of their speech.
   • 1993, Monika Fludernik, The fictions of language and the languages of fiction:

     […] however, Banfield goes on to posit that first person narrative comes in two shapes, one of which is speakerless while the other corresponds with skaz […]

   • 2000, Jeremy Hicks, Mikhail Zoshchenko and the poetics of skaz:

     She argues that the chief means of indicating the distance between the two levels in grotesque-ironic skaz is 'linguistic discrediting' […]

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From Proto-West Germanic *skatt.

skaz m

1. treasure
2. money
3. wealth
4. tax

• Middle High German: schaz, schatz
  • German: Schatz (see there for further descendants)
  • Luxembourgish: Schatz

• Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

• IPA^(key): /ˈskas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: skaz

Borrowed from Russian сказ (skaz, “tale”).

skaz m inan

1. (literature) skaz (Russian narrative form)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

skaz f

1. genitive plural of skaza

• skaz in Polish dictionaries at PWN