Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pleḱ-

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Etymology

Extended from *pel- (“to fold”).

Root

*pleḱ-[1][2]

to fold, plait, weave

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleḱ-

*pléḱ-e-ti (root present)
- Proto-Hellenic: *plékō
  - Ancient Greek: πλέκω (plékō)
*pleḱ-eh₂-ye-ti
- Proto-Italic: *plekāō
  - Latin: plicō (with i from its compounds)
*pléḱ-te-ti[3][4]
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *pleśtei
  - Proto-Slavic: *plestì (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *flehtaną (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *plektō
  - Latin: plectō
*pleḱ-tó-
- Proto-Hellenic: *plektós
  - Ancient Greek: πλεκτός (plektós)
*pleḱ-nó-s or *ploḱ-nó-s
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *praćnás
  - Proto-Indo-Aryan: *praśnás
    - Sanskrit: प्रश्न (praśná, “basket-work, a plaited basket; turban”) (see there for further descendants)
  - Proto-Iranian: *pracnáh
    - Younger Avestan: 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬙𐬋𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬱𐬥𐬀‎ (ər^əzatōfrašna, “having a golden helmet/coat of mail”)
*pleḱ-s
- Proto-Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: -πλαξ (-plax) (e.g. δίπλαξ (díplax), τρίπλαξ (tríplax))
- Proto-Italic: *pleks
  - Latin: -plex (e.g. simplex, duplex)
*ploḱ-s-om
- Proto-Germanic: *flahsą (see there for further descendants)
*ploḱ-o
- Proto-Germanic: *flaką (“something flat”) (perhaps)
  - Old Norse: flaga
    - Danish: flage
    - Icelandic: flaga
    - Norwegian: flak
    - Swedish: flak
- Proto-Germanic: *flakaz (“flat”) (see there for further descendants) (perhaps)
- Proto-Hellenic: *plokos
  - Ancient Greek: πλόκος (plókos)
  - Ancient Greek: -πλοκος (-plokos) (e.g. πολύπλοκος (polúplokos))
*plok-o-nos (perhaps)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
  - Latvian: plakans (“flat, even”)
  - Lithuanian: plakãnas (“flat”)
*ploḱ-éh₂
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: πλοκή (plokḗ)
*plók-e- (perhaps)
- Proto-Germanic: *flahan- (“to flay, strip”)
plók-eh₂ (perhaps)
- Proto-Germanic: *flahō (“strip”)
  - Old Norse: flá (“strip of land, meadow”)
Unsorted formations:
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
  - Lithuanian: plokščias

References

Pokorny, Julius (1959), “plek̑-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 834-835
Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*plek̑-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 486
Derksen, Rick (2008), “*plestì”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 403-404
De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “plectō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 471-472

Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

[1] Pokorny, Julius (1959), “plek̑-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 834-835

[2] Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*plek̑-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 486

[3] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*plestì”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 403-404

[4] De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “plectō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 471-472