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Where does “malina” come from?

malina (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Proto-Slavic malina, from Proto-Indo-European meh₂l- — black.

malina (Serbo-Croatian): raspberry

Definitions

  1. raspberry

Ancestry of “malina”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavicmalinaraspberry
2Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₂l-black
Every word from Proto-Indo-European meh₂l- →