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Cognate with Latvianzàlba(“damage”), dialectal Russianназо́ла(nazóla, “anguish”). Possibly linked to Irishgalar(“sickness”), or alternatively with the root of žãlias(“green”).
Derksen, Rick (2015) “žala”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 511
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “назо́ла”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
