- (s)lī- (: slǝi- or slōi-), slī-u̯o-
- (s)lī- (: slǝi- or slōi-), slī-u̯o-English meaning: blueishDeutsche Übersetzung: “bläulich”Material: Lat. līveō, -ēre “bleifarbig, bläulich sein”, līvor “bläuliche paint, color”, līvidus “bläulich” (based on auf an adj. *slī-u̯os or *lī-u̯o-s); O.Ir. lī “paint, color, radiance “, Welsh lliw, O.Corn. liu, nCorn. lyw ds., O.Bret. Bret. liou “paint, color” (“paint, color” from “blue” verallgemeinert), O.Bret. liou “naevum”, da-liu (lies du-liu) “fuscus”; Gaul. PN Līvō; but Lat. Līvius perhaps etrusk. R.C.S. slíva “plum” etc., from which Lith. slyvà, O.Pruss. sliwaytos ds. borrowed; Slov. slîv “bläulich” is back-formation from dem Pflaumennamen; with formants -ko-: O.H.G. slēha, slēwa (*sloi-kʷo-), O.E. slüh (Eng. sloe), Ger. ‘schlehe”, Swe. slå(n) ds.; compare Martinet Word 12, 4.References: WP. II 715 f., WH. I 816, Trautmann 269 f., Vasmer 2, 660.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.