Skatos - That Which is Formed

The primordial root skatos, that which is cut from the material of the ether, thus scooped from matter around the universal shaft which cuts ... it gives form to shape, from the verb "to shape" which means to cut, likewise with "shave". Being cut and formed according to the higher forms, that is, truth,  as a shadow of the higher forms they are but shades, manifested shapes cast by the light of eternal constancy. Illusionary, material, they are the true definitions of the material existence: shadows, shapes, shades, nothing more.

All of these words in bold come from that root, "ska-", which tends to either be followed by a d/t or p; the former for the more base form, the latter for a specifically material form. Sounds themselves resonate with the existential frequencies of different things, and this is why they are specifically represented by certain utterable sounds - the closest approximate - therefore always consistent in what the words represent, an eternal language. Do not be mistaken in the origins of phonetic roots - they are deliberate, human proximations, or vocal manifestations, of the natural frequencies with which these objects resonate on.

This root, which can be seen clearly in the Germanic languages and to a lesser extent in others, has many cognates: German schaffen, Schaft, Norwegian skap, skav, and Old Norse skapa. The verb meant to create or ordain; to cut out of matter a specific form with shape - a shade of existence. It reflects the temporal nature of material existence, for the shape is but ephemeral - a shade that disappears, a shadow that is easily dissolved and which eventually does. The Greeks derived from this skotos, meaning a darkness or a shade, and the Celtic languages derived from it scath and scod to mean "darkness". The linguistic degeneration over the centuries sees the usage of this term turn from the expression of a physical object, that is, the material shape which is cast from the mold of the metaphysical world, into a meaning strictly pertaining to the corporeal world which is "darkness", "the shape of something", "shadows such as trees make" without deeper meaning common to the public eye, and surviving only in the deeper, original sense in the works of poets.

First ska- split into skatos and skapos, from which the modern forms of the words originate. So remember, the existential expression of the material form, the shape or skapos/skatos. It means form, instance of material existence, etc. A direct translation which would have the most sense for this root in modern day English would be "form".