balë

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bale"

Albanian

From Proto-Albanian *ballā-, from Pre-Proto-Albanian *balnā-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰólh₁neh₂- (“the white one”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shining, white”).^[1] Compare Latin flāgrāre (“to burn”), Old Church Slavonic бѣлъ (bělŭ, “white”), Lithuanian balnas (“pale”).

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balë f (plural bala, definite bala, definite plural balat)

^ Demiraj, Bardhyl et al. (2021), “balë”, in DPEWA. Digitales Philologisch-Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen [DPEWA. Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of Old Albanian]

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