mëlçi
Albanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUltimately from Italian milza or its variant, Italian milcia, with -ía suffix.[1]
Noun
editmëlçi f (plural mëlçi, definite mëlçia, definite plural mëlçitë)
Synonyms
edit- shpretka (“liver”) (Tosk)
- shpnetka (“liver”) (Gheg)
- shnetka (“liver”) (archaic)[2] (used in Kosovo and North Macedonia)
Hyponyms
editReferences
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mëlçi”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 259
- ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 134, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder