Reconstruction:Messapic/bilia
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Messapic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Messapic *bʰi-lo, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow, become”). Phonetically and semantically close to Albanian bilë, bijë.[1]
Noun[edit]
*bilia
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “bijë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 25