Albanian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *sel (to sneak, creep). Cognate to Middle Irish seilche (turtle, tortoise, snail), English slug, Lithuanian selù, selėti (slink, sneak into). Perhaps related to the Illyrian tribe of the Seleiitani.[1]

Noun edit

shligë f (plural shliga, definite shliga, definite plural shligat)

  1. adder, snake

References edit

  1. ^ “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke, pp. 900