Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰelǵ-

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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.

*bʰelǵ-^{[note 1]}

1. to balk, beam

• *bʰélǵ-mn̥ ~ *bʰl̥ǵ-mén-s
  • Proto-Italic: *flagmen
    • Latin: *flāmen ⇒ *sub-flāmen (“brake”)
• *bʰélǵ-ō, *bʰólǵ-ō
  • >? Proto-Germanic: *belkô, *balkô, *balkuz^{[note 2]} (see there for further descendants)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Proto-Albanian: *bliga
    • Albanian: bligë
  • >? Ancient Greek: φᾰ́λᾰγξ (phálanx)^{[note 3]} (see there for further descendants)

variant *bʰelḱ-?^{[1][note 1]}

• *bʰl̥ḱ-yé-ti
  • Proto-Italic: *folkjō
    • Latin: fulciō (“to prop up, support”) (see there for further descendants)
• *bʰl̥ḱ-eh₂-
  • Proto-Hellenic: *pʰə́lkās
    • >? Ancient Greek: φάλκης (phálkēs, “rib of a ship? (= beam, crossbar?); *gunwale”)^{[note 3]} (see there for further descendants)

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “5. bhel-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 122–123
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φάλαγξ, -αγγος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1548–1549
• Guus Kroonen (2013) “*belkan- ~ *balkan- ~ *bulkan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 58