pollex. Pokorny derives both from a <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Indo-European *pōlo- (“fat, swollen, big”), but this is uncertain. *<span class="searchmatch">pàlьcь</span> m thumb According to the Dybo’s system...
words (i.e. Latin pollex, <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *<span class="searchmatch">palьcь</span>). *pälkä thumb <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Samoyedic: *pej- (see there for further descendants) <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Permic: *pɔ̈l (see there...
Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>/němьcь Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>/otьcь Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>/<span class="searchmatch">palьcь</span> Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>/pěvьcь Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Slavic/pьsьcь...
*<span class="searchmatch">palьcь</span> (“thumb”) *palyga, *paluga, *paluxa (“thick stick, pillar”) *polъ, *polъtь (“side, half, chunk”) *polъka, *polica (“shelf, file”) East <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>:...
stick, pillar”) + *-ъka. Compare *<span class="searchmatch">palьcь</span> (“thumb”). *palъka f cane, stick *palica * -asъ is the expected Balto-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> form but is found only in some Old...