Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pelH-

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pelh₁-, and Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pelh₂-

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *pel-
• *pelh₁-

Etymology

Derksen takes the original meaning of the root as "to burn, singe", whence secondary senses including "ashes" (the result of burning) and "gray" (the color of ash).

Possibly related to Proto-Uralic *piľe (“dark”).

Root

*pelH-

1. pale, gray

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pelH- (14 c, 0 e)

• *polH-nó-s
  • Proto-Italic: *polnos
    • Latin: pullus (see there for further descendants)
• *pelH-tó-s, *pl̥H-tós
  • Proto-Celtic: *ɸlētos (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *palHtás
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *palHtás
      • Sanskrit: पलित (palitá, “gray”) (see there for further descendants)
• *pl̥H-kó-s
  • Proto-Albanian: *plaka
    • Albanian: plak (old man)
• *polH-wos
  • Proto-Germanic: *falwaz (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Proto-Balto-Slavic: *palwas (see there for further descendants)
• *polH-men-s
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *palmōns
    • Proto-Slavic: *pòlmy (flame)
• *pelH-en
  • Lithuanian: pelenaĩ (ashes)
  • Latvian: pelni (ashes)

• Unsorted formations:
  • Armenian:
    • Old Armenian: ալի (ali, “gray hair; wave”)
  • Balto-Slavic:
    • Latvian: pelēks
    • Lithuanian: pelekas, pìlkas
    • Old Prussian: pelē
    • Slavic:
      • East Slavic:
        • Russian: пелёсый (peljósyj)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *parHušás (see there for further descendants)
  • Italic:
    • Latin: palleō; pallidus
  • Ancient Macedonian: [script needed] (pellus)