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Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-. Cognate with Latvian zaļš (“green”) and akin to Proto-Slavic *zelenъ (“green”), *zelьje (“young vegetation”).
Adjective
žãlias m (feminine žalià) stress pattern 4
- green
- unripe, immature
- uncooked, raw, unworked
- inexperienced, naive
- young, hale
- green, ecofriendly
Declension
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms
References
- “žalias”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- “žalias”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “žalias”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 511