Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/emela

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This Proto-Slavic 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-Slavic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From a Proto-Balto-Slavic term with uncertain vowels and ending, reflected as Old Prussian emelno f, Lithuanian ãmalas, ẽmalas, Latvian āmulis, āmuls, amuls, āmals, amùolis, amuols, ȩmuols, and by toponymy for other Baltic languages as well as Dacian *amalas (mistletoe); of obscure origin, speculated a borrowing from such a Trümmersprache.

Noun

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*emela f

  1.  mistletoe

Inflection

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 54
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*emela, *emelo, *emelъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 26
  • Udolph, Jürgen (1994) Namenkundliche Studien zum Germanenproblem (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde; 9) (in German), Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 250
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “омела”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress