lien

Senso (Inglese)

spleen

Concetti

milza

sinonimi

splen

liēn

Traduzioni

spleen

bazo

Milz

rate

melsa

طحال

milt

baço

dalak

σπλήνα

milt

üble Laune

spleen

sipil

Pronunciato come (IPA)

[ˈli.eːn]

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Proto-Indo-European, reflecting a form *(s)li(ǵʰ)-ēn-, from the root *spelǵʰ- (“spleen”), heavily distorted in all of its descendants, likely for tabooistic reasons, making the exact original PIE form hard to pin down. The newly introduced -i- is seemingly also found in the Sanskrit cognate प्लीहन् (plīhán), the fall of *-h- < *-ǵʰ- is also observed in Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn), while the loss of *-p- is also visible in Proto-Slavic *selzenь.
Other cognates include Middle Irish selg, Lithuanian blužnis, Old Armenian փայծաղն (pʻaycałn), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬥- (spər^əzan-). Doublet of splēn.