Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/plewd-

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

Etymology

Extended form of *plew-.

Root

*plewd- [1]

to fly, flow, run

Derived terms

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*plewd- (root present)
- Balto-Slavic:
  - Latgalian: plyudi (“flood”)
- Celtic:
  - Old Irish: luaidid
- Germanic: *fleutaną (“to float, to stream”)
*plud-sḱé- (sḱe-present)
- Balto-Slavic:
  - Lithuanian: plū́sti
*plewd-o-
- Germanic: *fleutaz (“fast-running”)
  - Middle Dutch: vliet
  - Old Norse: fljótr
    - Icelandic: fljótur
    - Westrobothnian: flut
- Germanic: *fleutą (“stream”)
  - Old English: flēot
    - English: fleet
  - Middle Dutch: vliet
*plud-om
- Germanic: *flutą
  - Old English: flot
  - Dutch: vlot (“raft”)
  - Old Norse: flot
Unsorted formations:
- Germanic: *flutōną
- Italic:
  - Latin: plaustrum

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 835–837
Watkins, Calvert (1985), “pleu-”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill