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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pelH-
See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pelh₁- and Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pelh₂-
Proto-Indo-European
Alternative reconstructions
- *pel-[1]
Etymology
Possibly related to Proto-Uralic *piľe (“dark”).
Root
*pelH-[2]
- pale, gray
Derived terms
Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pelH-
- *polH-nós
- Proto-Italic: *polnos
- Latin: pullus (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *polnos
- *polH-tós
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *palHtás
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *palHtás
- Sanskrit: पलित (palitá, “gray”) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *palHtás
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *palHtás
- *pl̥H-tós
- Proto-Celtic: *ɸlētos (see there for further descendants)
- *polH-wos
- Proto-Germanic: *falwaz (see there for further descendants)
- ? Proto-Balto-Slavic: *palwas (see there for further descendants)
- Unsorted formations:
- Albanian: plak (“old man”)
- Armenian:
- Old Armenian: ալի (ali, “gray hair; wave”)
- Balto-Slavic:
- Latvian: pelēks
- Lithuanian: pelekas, pìlkas
- Old Prussian: pelē
- Slavic:
- East Slavic:
- Russian: пелёсый (peljósyj)
- East Slavic:
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *parHušás (see there for further descendants)
- Italic:
- Latin: palleō; pallidus
- Ancient Macedonian: [script needed] (pellus)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “falwa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009), “vaal”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press