Where does “alsivã” come from?
alsivã (Aromanian) comes from Greek αλισίβα, from Italian liscivia, from Latin lixīva, from Latin lixīvus, from Latin lixa, from Latin *lixus, from Proto-Indo-European wleykʷ- — moist, to wet.
alsivã (Aromanian): lye
Ancestry of “alsivã”, step by step