Talk:shpellë

Tea room discussion
What if any is the relationship between Greek σπηλιά: and σπήλαιον:, Albanian shpellë:, and English ? It seems they all ultimately come from Slavic. &mdash; hippietrail 12:55, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Are you sure spelunk ultimately is from a Slavic language? I don’t know what Slavic language it would be. Russian has, but that’s borrowed from Greek. I think English spelunk is from Ancient Greek , related to and to . —Stephen 09:47, 27 December 2008 (UTC)