mëlçi

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • mbëlçi

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *mil(i̯)tiā, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Compare Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), German Milz, Swedish mjälte[1]. The term could also represent a borrowing from Italian milza (“spleen”), a loanword from Germanic.

Noun

mëlçi f

  1. liver

References

  1. ↑ “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke
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