Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/glewbʰ-

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

*glewbʰ-

1. to split

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *glewbʰ-‎ (25 c, 0 e)

• *gléwbʰ-e-ti (thematic root present)
  • Proto-Germanic: *kleubaną (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Italic: *glouβō (see there for further descendants)
• *glúbʰ-e-ti (thematic zero-grade root present)
  • Proto-Hellenic: *glúpʰō
    • Ancient Greek: γλύφω (glúphō)
• *glowbʰ-éye-ti (causative)
  • Proto-Germanic: *klaubijaną (see there for further descendants)
• *glewbʰ-m-eh₂
  • Proto-Italic: *glouβ(s)mā
    • Latin: glūma (“husk, chaff”) (see there for further descendants)
• *gléwbʰ-ti-s ~ *glubʰ-téy-s
  • Proto-Germanic: *kluftiz (see there for further descendants)
• *glubʰ-on-
  • Proto-Germanic: *klubô
    • Proto-West Germanic: *klubō
      • Old High German: chlobo
        • Middle High German: klobe
          • Cimbrian: khlóop
          • German: Klobe, Kloben
      • Middle Dutch: clove
        • Dutch: kloof
          • Afrikaans: kloof
          • → English: kloof
          • → Papiamentu: kloof (dated)
  • Old Norse: klofi (“fork of a river”)

Unsorted derivations:

• Old English: clufu
  • Middle English: clove, clof, clowe
    • English: clove
    • Scots: clow
• Old Norse: klof (“fissure”)
  • Icelandic: klof (“crotch”)
  • Middle Irish: *clob (“tongs”)
    • Irish: tlú, clobhadh (obsolete)
    • Manx: cloughyn pl
    • Scottish Gaelic: clobha