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Unknown. The connection with Proto-Indo-European *gʷelbʰ-(“womb”) is problematic due to the missing labiovelar in Germanic.[1] However, *gʷl̥bʰus- or the weak stem of *gʷélbʰ-us ~ *gʷl̥bʰ-éws would yield *kulbuz-, from which the variant *kelbuz-, also attested in Germanic, could have been derived analogically as a strong stem, whose influence might explain the missing labialization in *kalbiz-.
Pokorny connects it to Latingalba(“little worm, larva; small person or animal”), itself perhaps of Gaulish origin, and proposes Proto-Indo-European*gel(e)b⁽ʰ⁾- as a labial extension of *gel-(“form into a ball; ball”);[2] compare Old Englishclyppan(“to hug, embrace; to clasp”) (modern Englishclasp), GermanKlafter(“armful, fathom”), Latvianglābt(“to save”), and Latinglaeba(“clod”), globus(“round object”). However, such irregular correspondences between *kalbaz and galba would more likely point to substrate origin.
Has been compared to Mingrelianქაბლა(kabla), itself of uncertain origin.[3]
^ Klimov, G. A. (1994) Древнейшие индоевропеизмы картвельских языков [The Oldest Indo-Europeanisms in Kartvelian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nasledie, →ISBN, page 197
↑ 4.04.1Guus Kroonen (2013) “*kalba(n)-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 278