FromProto-Indo-European*lewH-. Cognates includeLatinluō(“I expiate, pay”),Ancient Greekλύω(lúō,“I release, untie”),Sanskritलून(lūna), andEnglishloose. Alternatively fromProto-Indo-European*h₁lewdʰ-o-. Or probably an early borrowing fromLatinlīber. The fact thatlibër(“book”) hasn't undergone the same sound changes with intersyllabic loss is due to the fact that it is a much later borrowing, probably early medieval borrowing from Late Latin or early Italian.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [liɹə]

lirë

1. independent,unimpeded,unrestrained;free
2. cheap,inexpensive

• çliroj

• “lirë”, inFGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian),2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1],1980
• Newmark,L. (1999) “lirë”, inOxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[2]

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