Reconstruction:Proto-Hellenic/mélās
Appearance
Proto-Hellenic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *mélh₂ns, from the root *melh₂- (“black”). Compare Sanskrit मल (mala, “dirt, dirty”), Latvian melns (“black”),[1] Lithuanian mė́lynas (“blue”).
Adjective
[edit]*mélās
Inflection
[edit]This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]*leukón | *poľľón | *mélān |
*erutʰrón | *kʰlōrón | |
*kʰlōrón | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μέλας”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 923-4