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shligë

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *sel (“to sneak, creep”). Cognate to Middle Irish seilche (“turtle, tortoise, snail”), English slug, Lithuanian selù, selėti (“slink, sneak into”). Perhaps related to the Illyrian tribe of the Seleiitani.[1]

Noun

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shligë f (plural shliga, definite shliga, definite plural shligat)

  1. adder, snake

References

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  1. ^ “Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch”, J. Pokorny, 1959, Bern : Francke, pp. 900
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