Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Singularized plural of *lik from Proto-Albanian *lika, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (to leave, to remain). Cognate to Sanskrit रिणक्ति (riṇákti, to leave), Latin linquō, and Old High German lihhan.[1]

Noun edit

liq m (plural liqe, definite liqi, definite plural liqet)

  1. woof, weft

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “liq”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 229