žalias

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

1. green
2. unripe, immature
3. uncooked, raw, unworked
4. inexperienced, naive
5. young, hale
6. green, ecofriendly

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• žélti (“to sprout”)
• žel̃tas (“yellowish”)
• žel̃vas (“greenish”)
• žãlas (“reddish”)

References

• “žalias”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
• “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