Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/gailas

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This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *gʰoylos (frothing, violent). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *gailaz (merry, excited).

Adjective

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*gailas[1]

  1. sharp, bitter
  2. angry

Descendants

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  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: gails
    • Latvian: gails (voluptuous, slender, without branches, glowing)
    • Lithuanian: gailùs (sharp, bitter, cold, lamentable, angry), gaĩlas (sharp, angry)
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: gaylis (white)
  • Proto-Slavic: *dzělъ (see there for further descendants)

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “gailus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 161:*goilos