alwis
Old Prussian
editEtymology
editCompare Latvian al̂va (“tin”), Lithuanian álvas (displaced by Russian loan ãlavas), Proto-Slavic *olovo (“tin, lead”).
Noun
editalwis
Related terms
edit- elwas (“tin ore”)
Further reading
edit- Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988) “alwis”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian][2] (in Lithuanian), volume 1, Vilnius: Mokslas, page 73
- G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873) “alwis”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 5