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The Latin word līlium
Word
līlium
Meaning
lily
See also
Hittite:
a-le-el
‘flower’
Greek:
λείριον
‘lily, lilium candidum’
Albanian:
lule
‘flower’
Comments
Probably a borrowing from an (eastern) Mediterranean language.