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Old Prussian
Etymology
Compare Latvian al̂va (“tin”), Lithuanian álvas (displaced by Russian loan ãlavas), Proto-Slavic *olovo (“tin, lead”).
Noun
alwis
- lead
c. 1300, Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary (in Middle High German), page 180, line 527:Bley [Blei] — Alwis- Lead — Alwis
Further reading
- Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988) “alwis”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian] (in Lithuanian), volume 1, Vilnius: Mokslas, page 73
- G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873) “alwis”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 5