Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/gailas

This Proto-Balto-Slavic 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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰoylos (“frothing, violent”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *gailaz (“merry, excited”).

Adjective

*gailas

1. sharp, bitter
2. angry

Descendants

• East Baltic:
  • Latgalian: gails
  • Latvian: gails (“voluptuous, slender, without branches, glowing”)
  • Lithuanian: gailùs (“sharp, bitter, cold, lamentable, angry”), gaĩlas (“sharp, angry”)
• West Baltic:
  • Old Prussian: gaylis (“white”)
• Proto-Slavic: *dzělъ (see there for further descendants)