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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/gailas

This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰoylos. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *gailaz.

Adjective

*gailas [1]

  1. sharp, bitter
  2. angry

Descendants
  • Latvian: gails (“voluptuous, slender, without branches, glowing”)
  • Lithuanian: gailùs (“sharp, bitter, cold, lamentable, angry”), gaĩlas (“sharp, angry”)
  • Old Prussian: gaylis (“white”)
  • Slavic: *dzělъ (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015), “gailus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 161: “*goilos”
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