usca

Etymology
Most likely, present active infinitive of , or less likely, from a root , from , from , although the normal phonetic result in Romanian would have been  or , after which the intervocalic -t- disappeared; in this view, the form  is a modern one that replaced an original form analogically (compare Calabrian ). Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to dry