леќа

Etymology
Probably a South Slavic borrowing from an unidentified source. Common Slavic age form is reconstructed as.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform.

If ultimately a non-IE loanword, locating the source is impossible because cultivation of lentils was widespread in the Mediterranean region since the Neolithic.

Noun

 * 1) lentil
 * 2) lens