Reconstruction:Proto-Albanian/lulā
Proto-Albanian
editEtymology
editAn ancient Balkan loanword from an oriental source.
From the substrate source responsible for Persian لاله, Latin līlia, Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion), ultimately from Egyptian ḥrrt (“flower”).[1]
Noun
edit*lulā
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “Proto-Albanian/lulā”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 234