قلوي
Pronounced as (IPA)
/qil.wijj/
Etymology
قِلْو (qilw, “base, alkali”) + ـِيّ (-iyy). Apparently the second vocalization is a phono-semantic matching of English alkali and the terms in other languages having the segment /kal/, like German alkalisch where the segment bears the stress.
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