liq

Albanian

Etymology

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

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

  1. woof, weft

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