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From Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₁- (“to swallow; throat”). Cognate with Latin gula (“throat”), Ancient Greek δέλεαρ (délear, “decoy, bait”), Old Armenian կլանեմ (klanem, “to swallow”),[1] as well as perhaps Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow, gulp”), Persian گلو (galu, “throat”), Hindi गला (galā, “neck, throat”). The phonetic and semantic similarity of the root to Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour, eat”) is notable, though difficult to reconcile formally.
*kelǭ f[1][2]
- throat
| ōn-stemDeclension of *kelǭ (ōn-stem)
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singular
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plural
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*kelǭ
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*kelōniz
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| vocative
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*kelǭ
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*kelōniz
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| accusative
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*kelōnų
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*kelōnunz
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| genitive
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*kelōniz
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*kelōnǫ̂
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*kelōni
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*kelōmaz
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| instrumental
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*kelōnē
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*kelōmiz
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- Proto-West Germanic: *kelā
- Old Norse: *kjala
- → Proto-Samic: *kielō (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-Finnic: *këlo (see there for further descendants)
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*kelōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 284: “f. ‘throat’”
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*keluz ~ *kelōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 212: “sb.m./f.”
