shlligë

Albanian
Alternative forms
  • shëlligë

Etymology

Either from a tabooistic description derived from lig[1], or from *lligë, from Proto-Albanian *sligā, the same Indo-European root of Old Irish selige (“turtle”) or German schleichen (“to crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”).

Noun

shlligë f (indefinite plural shlliga, definite singular shlliga, definite plural shlligat)

  1. viper

References
  1. A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.425
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