From: alexmoeller@...
Message: 17316
Date: 2003-01-01
> Alex,I understand. Kalwo is not kalo tough, isnt it? I was looking just for
>
> Germanic *kallo:jan- is a _verb_, and *-o:-j-an- is a string of
> sufixes making up the ending of the most numerous class of "weak"
> _infinitives_. An infinitive cannot serve as a personal name. The
> actual Germanic root here is *kall-, which looks like a reflex of
> pre-PGmc. *gal-n- (cf. Slavic *golsU 'voice', reduplicated *golgolU >
> OCS glagolU 'word'). No formal relation to Lat. calo:, which however
> appears to be related to Gk. kaleo: 'call, summon, invoke'.
>
> Greek kalos (< kalwos) means 'beautiful, fair, handsome, shapely,
> fine' etc., exactly as George said.
>
> Piotr
>