mëlçi

Albanian

Alternative forms

mbëlçi

Etymology

Ultimately from Italian milza or its variant, Italian milcia, with -ía suffix.[1]

Noun

mëlçi f (plural mëlçi, definite mëlçia, definite plural mëlçitë)

(anatomy) liver
Synonym: hepar
innards

Synonyms

shpretka (“liver”) (Tosk)
shpnetka (“liver”) (Gheg)
shnetka (“liver”) (archaic)[2] (used in Kosovo and North Macedonia)

Hyponyms

mëlçi e bardhë (“lung”)
mëlçi e zezë (“liver”)

References

Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mëlçi”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 259
Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 134, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder

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