Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/selp-

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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.

Proto-Indo-European

Root

*selp-

  1. fat, oil

Derived terms

  • *solp-éh₂
    • Proto-Germanic: *salbō (see there for further descendants)
  • *sólp-eh₂
    • Proto-Hellenic: *(h)ólpā
      • >? Ancient Greek: ὄλπη (ólpē, flask for oil) (see there for further descendants)
  • ?*sólp-r̥
    • Proto-Italic: *solpor, *solpur?
      • >? Latin: sulpur, sulphur (or irregularly from *sélp-os ~ *sélp-es-; see below) (see there for further descendants)
  • *sélp-os ~ *sélp-es- (s-stem noun)
  • *sl̥p-rós (adjective)
  • Unsorted formations:
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
      • Proto-Iranian:
        • Middle Persian: clp (čarb)
        • Parthian: 𐫝𐫡𐫁 (crb /⁠čarb⁠/, smooth, mild)
        • Pashto: څورب (śorb)
        • Baluchi: (čarp, fat)
        • Central Kurdish: چەور (çewr, fat)
        • Ossetian: царв (carv)
Notes
  1. 1.0 1.1 Expected rough breathing reflecting *s- is not present. Also, the variation in the stop consonant may point to a Pre-Greek origin.
  2. 2.0 2.1 But more likely a wanderwort related to Proto-Germanic *sweblaz.

References

  1. ^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*selp-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 612-613
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  3. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992–2001) “sarpís-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 710-711
  4. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*salbō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 424
  5. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἔλπος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 415–416
  6. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sulpur, -uris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 598
  7. ^ Szemerényi, Oswald (1995) “Etyma Latina VII, 38–44”, in Wojciech Smoczyński, editor, Kuryłowicz Memorial Volume, Part One (Analecta Indoevropaea Cracoviensia; 2), Krakow: Jagiellonian University, →ISBN, page 410 of 409–416
  8. ^ Victor Mair (June 22 2022) “Tocharian words for oil”, in Language Log, retrieved 2022-06-22