liche

Forms

liche m^[1]

• Other spellings: LIKÉ, plural likédz, in Papahagi's dictionary;^[2] LICHE, plural lichedsi, in Pascu, who also gives Nikolaidis's licheă, plural lichei.^[3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Turkish leke (“stain”),^[2][3] which Eren derives from Persian لكا (lakā, “spot, stain”).^[4] Pascu lists Modern Greek λεκές (lekés, “stain”) and the Bulgarian and Albanian forms of the same Turkish word as parallels;^[3] Babiniotis also traces the Greek word through Turkish to Persian.^[5]

Semantic evolution

The word kept the sense of its Turkish source, a stain or soiling.^[2][3][6] Aromanian formed from it the verb lichisescu "to stain, to soil", which Pascu compares with Modern Greek λεκιάζω (lekiázo).^[3][1]

Meanings

Noun

1. A stain, a spot of dirt.^[2][3][1]

Word family

• lichisescu

References

1. ^ a b c Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 585
2. ^ a b c d Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 737
3. ^ a b c d e f Pascu, Giorge (1925), Dictionnaire étymologique macédoroumain, 2 vols. (I: Les éléments latins et romans; II: Les éléments grecs, turcs, slaves, albanais, germaniques, magyars, néologismes, créations immédiates, obscurs), Iași: Cultura Națională, p. 2, 147
4. ^ Eren, Hasan (1999), Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü, Ankara: Bizim Büro
5. ^ Babiniotis, Georgios (2010), Ετυμολογικό λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας [Etymological Dictionary of Modern Greek], Athens: Κέντρο Λεξικολογίας, p. 770
6. ^ Eren, Hasan (1999), Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü, Ankara: Bizim Büro, p. 280