Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/kelH-

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Root

*kelH- [1][2]

to rise, to be tall
hill

Derived terms

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(perhaps) *kl̥-né-H-ti ~ *kl̥-n-H-énti (nasal-infix present)
- Italic: *kelnō
  - Latin: (ante)cellō, (ex)cellō, (prae)cellō
  - South Picene: [script needed] (eśelsit)
*kelH-n-to-
- Italic:
  - Latin: celsus
*kélH-mn̥ ~ *kl̥H-mén-s
- Italic: *kolamen
  - Latin: columen, culmen
*kélH-mn̥-eh₂
- Italic: *kolamnā
  - Latin: columna
*kl̥H-ní-s (“hill”)
- Germanic: *hulliz
  - Old English: hyll
    - Middle English: hul, hyl, hil
      - Scots: hull, hill
      - English: hill
  - Old Frisian: *hell, *hel; holla
    - West Frisian: hel
  - Old Saxon: *hull, *hul
    - Middle Low German: hull
  - Old Dutch: hil (coastal, Ingvaeonic); *hul (elsewhere)
    - Middle Dutch: hil, hille; hul
      - Dutch: hil; hul
- Italic: *kolnis
  - Latin: collis
*kólH-no-s (“hill”)
- Balto-Slavic:
  - Latgalian: kolns
  - Latvian: kal̂ns
  - Lithuanian: kálnas
*kolH-ō-no-s
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: κολωνός (kolōnós)
*kolH-ō-neh₂
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: κολώνη (kolṓnē)
*kolH-weh₂
- Balto-Slavic:
  - Latvian: kalva
  - Lithuanian: kalvà
*kolH-bʰ-
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: κολοφών (kolophṓn)
Unsorted formations:
- Balto-Slavic:
  - Latvian: cel̂t
  - Lithuanian: kélti
  - Lithuanian: kìlti

References

Ringe, Don (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, Oxford University Press
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

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[1] Ringe, Don (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, Oxford University Press

[2] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill