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alwis

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Old Prussian

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Etymology

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Compare Latvian al̂va (tin), Lithuanian álvas (displaced by Russian loan ãlavas), Proto-Slavic *olovo (tin, lead).

Noun

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alwis

  1. lead
    • c. 1300, Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary[1] (in Middle High German), page 180, line 527:
      Bley [Blei] — Alwis
      Lead — Alwis
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Further reading

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  • Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988) “alwis”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian]‎[2] (in Lithuanian), volume 1, Vilnius: Mokslas, page 73
  • G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873) “alwis”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 5