Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰil-
Proto-Indo-European
editRoot
edit*bʰil-
Reconstruction notes
editPotentially an attributive verb "to be harmonious, friendly." Derivations in daughter languages can also be explained as derivations of a verb.
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “*bhili-, *bhilo-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 153-154.
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*bila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 64