Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/(s)kel-

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/skel- and Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/(s)kelH-

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

*(s)kel-

2. to bend, crook
3. bent, crooked
4. (bent or curved body parts) leg, heel, knee, hip

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kel-‎ (3 c, 0 e)

• *skél-ko-s
  • Proto-Germanic: *skelhaz
• *skél-os ~ *skél-es-os
  • Proto-Hellenic: *skélos
    • Ancient Greek: σκέλος (skélos), ⇒ τρισκελίς (triskelís)
  • Proto-Italic: *skelos
    • Latin: scelus (see there for further descendants)
• *skél-o-s
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
    • Proto-Iranian:
      • →⇒ Old Armenian: շար-աւանդ (šar-awand)
      • Mazanderani: اشکل (eškel, “thigh, thighbone”)
      • Persian: شل (šal, “thigh”)
  • ⇒ *skelo-wer-o-
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
      • Proto-Iranian: *šarawāra-
        • Persian: شلوار (šalvâr) (see there for further descendants)
        • → Arabic: سِرْوَال (sirwāl), سِرْبَال (sirbāl), شِرْوَال (širwāl) (dialectal), شَرْوَال (šarwāl) (modern), سِرْوَل (sirwal), سِرْوِيل (sirwīl) (see there for further descendants)
        • → Biblical Aramaic: סַרְבָּלָא
        • → Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: סַרְבָּלָא (sarbālā, “trousers; a type of outer garment”)
        • → Ancient Greek: σαράβαρα (sarábara), σαράβαλλα (saráballa, “Scythian loose trousers”)
        • → Latin: sarabala, sarabāra (“(Scythian) wide trousers”)
        • → Classical Mandaic: ࡔࡀࡓࡅࡀࡋࡀ (šaruala, “trousers”)
        • → Classical Syriac: ܫܪܒܠܐ (šarbālā, “trousers”), ܫܪܘܠܐ du (šarwālē, “leggings”)
• *skol-ó-s
  • Proto-Albanian: *štšala
    • Albanian: çalë
• *kōl-o-m
  • Proto-Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: κῶλον (kôlon) (see there for further descendants)
• *kól-ō
  • Proto-Hellenic: *kólō
    • Ancient Greek: κόλων (kólōn)
• Unsorted formations:
  • >? Proto-Albanian: *kall-
    • Albanian: shkal (“to tread, spur”)
  • Armenian:
    • >? Old Armenian: խուլ (xul, “deaf”)
  • Balto-Slavic:
    • >? Lithuanian: atsikalti
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: κυλίνδω (kulíndō), κύλινδρος (kúlindros)
    • Ancient Greek: κυλλός (kullós, “deformed, crippled, crooked”) (possibly)
    • Ancient Greek: κῶλον (kôlon)
    • Ancient Greek: σκολιός (skoliós)
    • Ancient Greek: σκολίωσις (skolíōsis)
    • Ancient Greek: σκολίωμα (skolíōma)
    • Ancient Greek: σκώληξ (skṓlēx)
  • Italic: *skalik-
    • Latin: calix
    • Umbrian: skalçeta

See also

• *(s)kelH-
• *(s)ker-

References

Further reading

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 928, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 928