Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gelH-

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.

Formally unable to be related to Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H- (“bald, naked”); however, the superficial phonetic and semantic resemblance of the two roots, as well as the existence of words meaning "bald" (a non-basic vocabulary term) in various descendants of both roots via the same suffixing pattern of -wó-s, is striking.^[1]

*gelH-^[2]

1. naked
2. head

• *golH-o-s
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic:
    • Proto-Slavic: *golъ (see there for further descendants)
• *golH-weh₂
  • Proto-Albanian: *gāla^[3]
    • Albanian: guall
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *galˀwā́ˀ
    • East Baltic:
      • Latgalian: golva
      • Latvian: gal̂va
      • Lithuanian: galvà
    • West Baltic:
      • Old Prussian: gallū, galwo
      • Sudovian: kałfa
    • Proto-Slavic: *golvà (see there for further descendants)
• *golH-wo-s
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *galˀwas
    • Proto-Slavic: *golvъ (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Germanic: *kalwaz (see there for further descendants)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Proto-Albanian:
    • Albanian: gollomësh (“naked; bat”)
  • >? Old Armenian: գլուխ (glux, “head”)
    • Armenian: գլուխ (glux)
      • Kurdish:

        → Northern Kurdish: kilox

  References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “galva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 162-3
  2. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*kalwa-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 278
  3. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “guall”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 126