kërcas

Etymology
. It could be:


 * a variant of, from dialectal
 * according to Orel, an early loanword from (although the meaning of the verb is not attested in South Slavic; see 🇨🇬), with *-č- > -c-. However, this is less likely

Verb

 * 1) to crack, to snap
 * 2) to cry, to shout, to yell