Where does “selpa” come from?

selpa (Proto-Albanian) comes from Proto-Indo-European sélpos, from Proto-Indo-European selp- — fat, oil.

selpa (Proto-Albanian): butter

Definitions

  1. butter

Ancestry of “selpa”, step by step

selpa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European sélpos

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeansélpos—
2Proto-Indo-Europeanselp-fat, oil

via Proto-Indo-European sélp-os ~ sélp-es-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeansélp-os ~ sélp-es-—

Words derived from “selpa”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European selp- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European sélpos →