Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰelǵʰ-

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Root

*bʰelǵʰ-

1. to swell

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰelǵʰ- (26 c, 0 e)

• *bʰélǵʰ-e-ti (thematic root present)
  • Proto-Germanic: *belganą (see there for further descendants)

• *bʰolǵʰ-éye-ti (causative)
  • Proto-Germanic: *balgijaną (see there for further descendants)

• *bʰolǵʰ-eh₂-ye-ti
  • Old Irish: bolgaid

• *bʰólǵʰ-o-s
  • Proto-Celtic: *bolgos (“sack”) (see there for further descendants)

• *bʰolǵʰ-i-s
  • Proto-Germanic: *balgiz (“bag”) (see there for further descendants)

• *bʰolǵʰ-is-
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *bʰarȷ́ʰíš (see there for further descendants)

• *bʰolǵʰ-in-o-s
  • Old Prussian: balsinis (“pillow”)

• *bʰolǵʰ-in-eh₂
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *balźeinas (“support; cross-beam; cushion”)
    • Baltic
      • Latvian: bàlziêns
      • Lithuanian: balžíenas
      • Old Prussian: balsinis
    • Proto-Slavic: *bolzina (see there for further descendants)

• *bʰolǵʰ-no-s (compare the n-stem below)
  • Proto-Baltic:
    • Old Lithuanian: balgnas (“saddle”)
      • Lithuanian: bal̃nas (“saddle”)
    • Old Prussian: balgnan (“saddle”)

• *bʰélǵʰ-ō, *bʰólǵʰ-ō ~ *bʰl̥ǵʰ-n-és
  • >? Proto-Germanic: (*belgô, *balgô ~ *bulkkaz > *belkkô, *balkkô >) *belkô, *balkô, *bulkô (“beam”) (see there for further descendants)

• *bʰelǵʰ-u-s
  • Proto-Germanic: *belguz
    • Faroese: bjølgur

• Unsorted formations:
  • Russian: бо́лозень (bólozenʹ, “callus, bump”)
  • Proto-Germanic: *bulgijō (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Celtic: *belgos (“swollen with anger”)
    • → Latin: Belgae
  • Proto-Germanic: *bulstraz (see there for further descendants)
  • >? Latin: follis (see there for further descendants)