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  • lew: from PIE base *leb- "lip."
Cognates: cf. Old Frisian lippa, Middle Dutch lippe, German lefze, Swedish läpp, Danish læbe "lip.")
English Cognate: lip
Source: Etymonline


  • lizg: from PIE base *lHghs- "branch."
Cognates: cf. Lithuanian lagzda "shaft of spear," Polish laska "branch."
English Cognate: N/A
Note: This is one of the rare examples where Zazaki keeps the PIE "*l" sound.
Source: Schwartz


  • lûye: from PIE base *wl̥p-eh₁- "fox."
Cognates: cf. Avestan urupis, Persian rōbāh Armenian ałvēs, Greek alōpēks, Latin volpēs, Lithuanian lapė, Latvian lapė "fox."
English Cognate: N/A
Note: This is one of the rare examples where Zazaki keeps the PIE "*l" sound while it turns to an "r" sound in other Iranian languages, including the Avestan language.
Source: Schwartz


Çavkanî
  • Cheung, Johnny. Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb. Boston: Brill. 2007.
  • Etymonline. Online English Etymology Dictionary. <etymonline.com> by Douglas Harper.
  • Fortson, Benjamin W. Indo-European Language and Culture. Blackwell Publishing. 2004.
  • Nisanyan, Sevan. Etymological Dictionary of Modern Turkish. Adam Y. Istanbul 2007.
  • Watkins, Calvert. The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. Second Ed. Houghton Publishing. USA 2007.