Re: Northwest *kVl-

At 7:42:05 PM on Saturday, June 28, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

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> Pokorny:
> '1. kel-, kel&- "ragen, hoch (heben)"; kl.n-is "Hügel".

[...]

> mir. coll "Haupt, Führer" (*kolnos);

I suppose that this is the DIL's third <coll> entry (after
the expected 'hazel' and 'destruction', glossed 'expld. as
neck, jaw, head'?

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> kWekWlo-, kWokWlo- (?) "Rad" in:
> ai. cakrá- m. n. (Akzent sekundär) "Wagenrad, Scheibe, Kreis",
> av. c^axra- m. "Rad",
> gr. kúklos "Kreis", Pl. kúkloi und kúkla "Räder",
> aisl. hjo:l, hve:l (*kWékWelon-, germ. *hwéh(w)ula-) n.,
> ags. hwe:ol (engl. wheel), daneben hweowol, hweogol (germ.
> *hweg(w)ulá-),

Ringe: OIc <hvél> and OE <hwe:ol> from PGmc *hWehWlaz < PIE
*kWékWlos, but OIc <hjól> and OE <hweowol> from PGmc
*hWeula- < PIE *kWekWléh2 (collective).

Brian