Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/pelh₂-

This entry contains Proto-Indo-European reconstructed words 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

Adjective

*pelh₂-

1. plain, flat
2. field, open country

Descendants

• Old Armenian: հող (hoġ) "earth, land", լայն (layn) "wide, broad"
• Baltic:
  • Latvian: plāns "thin", plats, plašs "wide, broad", plakans "flat, even"
  • Lithuanian: plonas "thin", platus "wide, broad", plokščias "flat, even"
  • Old Prussian: plonis
• Slavic: *polje
  • Old Church Slavonic: полѥ (polje)
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: поле (pole)
    • Russian: поле (pole)
    • Ukrainian: поле (pole)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: поле (pole)
    • Macedonian: поле (pole)
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic: поље

      Roman: polje

    • Slovene: polje
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: pole
    • Polish: pole
    • Slovak: pole
• Slavic: *plozŭ-
  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: плоский (ploskij) "flat"
  • West Slavic:
    • Polish: płaski "flat"
• Hellenic:
  • Greek: πλάτος (platos) "breadth, width", πλατύς (platus) "broad, wide"
• Indo-Iranian:
  • Iranian:
    • Avestan: fraθah
    • Kurdish:
      • Kurmanji: fireh ("wide, broad")
      • Sorani: firawan ("wide, broad")
  • Sanskrit: पृथु (pṛthú) "broad, wide", प्रथस् (práthas) "breadth, extension"
• Latin: plānus "flat, even", palam "openly, plainly"
  • English: plain, plane, plan
  • French: plan
  • Italian: piano
  • Portuguese: plano, chão
  • Romanian: plan
  • Spanish: llano, plano
• Celtic: *litano- "broad, wide"
  • Old Irish lethan
    • Irish: leathan
    • Manx: lhean
    • Scottish Gaelic: leathann
  • Welsh: llydan
  • Cornish: ledan
  • Breton: ledan
• Germanic: *felduz
  • Old English: feld
    • English: field
  • Old Frisian: feld
    • West Frisian: fjild
  • Old Saxon: *felt
    • Low German: *velt
      • Swedish: fält
      • Norwegian: felt
      • Danish: felt
  • Old Dutch *felt
    • Dutch: veld
  • Old High German: feld
    • German: Feld
  • Finnish: pelto
  • Estonian: põld
• Germanic: *fuldōn
  • Old English: folde
    • English: fold
  • Old Norse: fold
    • • Icelandic: fold