Re: Gold in PIE

> 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