mėlynas

Lithuanian

From Proto-Baltic *melˀ(n)- (“black, blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-(n-) (“dark, red, dirty”).^[1] Cognates include Latvian melns (“black”), Old Prussian melne (“bruise”), Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “dark, black”) (whence English melanin). Probably akin to Proto-Slavic *malina (“raspberry”).

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mė́lynas m

blue
- 1970, “Čiunga Čianga”‎^[1]:
  Čiunga čianga - mėlynas dangus,
  Čiunga Čianga, blue sky,

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “mė́lynas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 310