Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/kʷel-
Proto-Indo-EuropeanEdit
RootEdit
*kʷel-
- to turn (end-over-end)
Reconstruction notesEdit
The root is sometimes reconstructed with -h₁- in order to explain some forms in Greek, including:
- Pre-Greek *kʷélh₁-dʰe-ti (dʰe-present) > Ancient Greek τέλεθω (télethō)
This reconstruction, however, contradicts some forms in other languages, e.g.:
Alternative reconstructionsEdit
- *kʷelh₁-[1]
Derived termsEdit
- *kʷél-e-ti (root present)
- Albanian: *tšela
- Albanian: sjell
- Hellenic: *kʷélō
- Ancient Greek: πέλω (pélō)
- Indo-Iranian: *čárati
- Italic: *kʷelō
- Latin: colō (see there for further descendants)
- Albanian: *tšela
- *kʷél-ye-ti
- *kʷól-o-s
- *kʷl̥H-í-s
- *kʷel-o-m
- Old Prussian: kelan
- *kʷé-kʷl-o-s (reduplicated noun) (see there for further descendants)
- *kʷél-os ~ *kʷél-es-os
- *kʷel-es-ye-ti
- *kʷól-os ~ *kʷól-es-os
- *kʷol-so-m
- *kʷl̥-tó-s
- Unsorted formations:
See alsoEdit
- Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001) , “ku̯elh₁-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 386