Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/palwas

This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

Formal cognate with Proto-Germanic *falwaz (“pale, gray, fallow”), pointing to Proto-Indo-European *pol(H)wos; from the root *pelH- (“pale, gray”). From the same root derive Ancient Greek πολιός (poliós, “gray, hoary, pale, light”), Latin palleō (“I am pale, fade”), Sanskrit पलित (palitá-, “grey, hoary”), Old Armenian ալի (ali, “gray hair”).

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Adjective

*palwas[1][2]

pale yellow

Descendants

Lithuanian: pal̃vas
Proto-Slavic: *polvъ (see there for further descendants)

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*polvъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 412: “*polwos”
Derksen, Rick (2015), “palvas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 343: “*polwos”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*polvъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 412: “*polwos”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015), “palvas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 343: “*polwos”