Re: Gold in PIE

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, g <st-george@...> wrote:

> > gold in Old English gold, from Proto-Germanic *gulth-, from PIE
> > *ghel-/*ghol-. Slavic zlato and zoloto, Latvian zelts. The stem

is

> > related to Latvian dzeltens - yellow, Lithuanian geltonas and
> > z^a:lias (green), Russian zielionyj (green), z^ioltyj...
> >
> > Golden in Old English - gyldan, so gold is positively related to
> > *ghel-, which is preserved in Lithuanian as geltonas - yellow.
> >
> > Logical meaning of zelts is yellowness. Such nouns, adjectives,
> > passive participles are very frequent ancient Baltic lexis.:
>
> BTW, Hungarian zöld "green."
>
> George

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Lithuanian z^alias - green
z^ole - grass (green ---> grass)

There is ablaut gold - gyldan in English.

d <--- t is PIE suffixe.

Hungarian is non-Indo-European. The main mind is about -x --> -s^, -
z in auksas.