žalias

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Cognate with Latvian zaļš (“green”) and akin to Proto-Slavic *zelenъ (“green”), *zelьje (“young vegetation”).^[1]

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žãlias m (feminine žalià) stress pattern 4

1. green
2. unripe, immature
3. uncooked, raw, unworked
4. inexperienced, naive
5. young, hale
6. green, ecofriendly

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• žélti (“to sprout”)
• žel̃tas (“yellowish”)
• žel̃vas (“greenish”)
• žãlas (“reddish”)

• “žalias”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “žalias”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012