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Gothic
Etymology
Uncertain etymology; seemingly from Proto-Germanic *halkaz. Some have linked this to πΏππ·πΏπ»ππ½ (ushulΕn), Proto-West Germanic *halh and Old English healoc, which would suggest a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *αΈ±el-.
There are no apparent non-Germanic cognates. Has been cited as a possible source of Old Church Slavonic Ρ
Π»Π°ΠΊΡ (xlakΕ), but according to Lehmann this proposed borrowing is 'dubous semantically'.
Adjective
π·π°π»πΊπ β’ (halks)
- in vain, vain, futile
Declension
References
- Lehmann, Winfred P. (1986) βH32. halksβ, in A Gothic Etymological Dictionary, based on the 3rd ed. of Feistβs dictionary, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 174
- Stiles, Patrick V. (1997) βOE halh "slightly raised ground isolated by marsh"β, in Alexander Rumble, A. D. Mills, editors, Names, places and people : an onomastic miscellany in memory of John McNeal Dodgson, Stamford: Paul Watkins, βISBN, βOCLC, pages 330β344