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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kelaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gel-, *gʷel- (“to swallow; throat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈke.lɑz/
Noun
*kelaz n
- throat
Inflection
z-stemDeclension of *kelaz (z-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *kelaz | *kilizō | |
vocative | *kelaz | *kilizō | |
accusative | *kelaz | *kilizō | |
genitive | *kiliziz | *kilizǫ̂ | |
dative | *kilizi | *kilizumaz | |
instrumental | *kilizē | *kilizumiz |
Alternative reconstructions
- *kelurō[1]
Related terms
- *kelǭ
Descendants
- Old English: ċeolor, ċeoler; ċeosol, ċesol (“maw, gullet”) (through metathesis ?)
- Middle English: *cholere
- Scots: chollare, choler, choller, chuller, chiller
- Middle English: *cholere
- Old High German: kelur, kelor; kelura; keluro, keloro
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*kelurō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 284: “f. ‘throat’”