shlivë
Albanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Serbo-Croatian šljȉva/шљи̏ва (“plum”), with the sense likely carried over as a back-formation from shlivovicë.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editshlivë f (dialectal)
- plum brandy, slivovitz
- Synonym: shlivovicë
References
edit- Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “shlivë”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)[1], volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 257