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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian šljȉva / шљи̏ва (“plum”), with the sense likely carried over as a back-formation from shlivovicë.
Pronunciation
Noun
shlivë f (dialectal)
- plum brandy, slivovitz
- Synonym: shlivovicë
References
- Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “shlivë”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350), volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 257