Reconstruction:Proto-Albanian/slinjā
Proto-Albanian
editEtymology
editUltimately from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognate to Latvian sliẽnas (“saliva, mucus, slime”), Proto-Slavic *slina (“saliva”).[1]
Noun
edit*slinjā
Descendants
edit- Albanian: llënjëz
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “Proto-Albanian/slinjā”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 238