lirë

See also: lire and liře

Albanian

Etymology

Disputed. Perhaps:

• Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-. Cognates would include Latin luō (“to expiate, pay”), Ancient Greek λύω (lúō, “to release, untie”), Sanskrit लून (lūna), and English loose.
• Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-o-. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
• More likely, an early borrowing from Latin līber. The fact that libër (“book”) hasn't undergone the same sound changes with intersyllabic loss is due to the fact that it is a much later borrowing, probably early medieval borrowing from Late Latin or even Old Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [liɹə]

Adjective

lirë

1. independent, unimpeded, unrestrained; free
2. cheap, inexpensive

Related terms

• çliroj

Further reading

• “lirë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “lirë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]