köken: Alteration of Old Galician-Portuguese enveja, from Latin invidia. Compare Galician envexa, Catalan and Occitan enveja and French envie (whence English envy). Doublet of invídia, a learned borrowing with the same meaning.
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek ζήλια (zḗlia) / ζήλεια (zḗleia), from ζηλεία (zēleía) with recessive accent. From ζηλεύω (zilévo). Also see ζήλος (zílos).
köken: From Old Georgian შური (šuri, “envy”), an Iranian borrowing before 5th century, from which the old name of ნარიყალა (nariq̇ala), შურის-ციხე (šuris-cixe). Compare Persian شور.