slei- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	slei-
DEFINITION:	Bluish. 1. O-grade form sloi()-. sloe, from Old English slh,* sl, sloe (< “bluish fruit”), from Germanic slaihwn. 2. Zero-grade form sl- (contracted from sli-). a. Suffixed form sl-wo-. lavender, livid, from Latin lvre, to be bluish; b. Suffixed form sl-w-. slivovitz, from Serbo-Croatian ljìva,* plum. (Pokorny (s)l- 965.)


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