Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pleḱ-

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

Etymology

Extended from *pel- (“to fold”).

Root

*pleḱ-

1. to fold, plait, weave

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleḱ- (15 c, 0 e)

• *pléḱ-e-ti (root present)
  • Proto-Hellenic: *plékō
    • Ancient Greek: πλέκω (plékō)
• *pleḱ-eh₂-ye-ti
  • Proto-Italic: *plekāō
    • Latin: plicō (with i from its compounds)
• *pléḱ-te-ti
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *pleśtei
    • Proto-Slavic: *plestì (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Germanic: *flehtaną (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Italic: *plektō
    • Latin: plectō
• *pleḱ-tó-
  • Proto-Hellenic: *plektós
    • Ancient Greek: πλεκτός (plektós)
• *pleḱ-nó-s or *ploḱ-nó-s
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *praćnás
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *praśnás
      • Sanskrit: प्रश्न (praśná, “basket-work, a plaited basket; turban”) (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Iranian: *pracnáh
      • Younger Avestan: 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬙𐬋𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬱𐬥𐬀 (ər^əzatōfrašna, “having a golden helmet/coat of mail”)
• *pleḱ-s
  • Proto-Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: -πλαξ (-plax) (e.g. δίπλαξ (díplax), τρίπλαξ (tríplax))
  • Proto-Italic: *pleks
    • Latin: -plex (e.g. simplex, duplex)
• *ploḱ-s-om
  • Proto-Germanic: *flahsą (see there for further descendants)
• *ploḱ-o
  • Proto-Germanic: *flaką (“something flat”) (perhaps)
    • Old Norse: flaga
      • Danish: flage
      • Icelandic: flaga
      • Norwegian: flak
      • Swedish: flak
  • Proto-Germanic: *flakaz (“flat”) (see there for further descendants) (perhaps)
  • Proto-Hellenic: *plokos
    • Ancient Greek: πλόκος (plókos)
    • Ancient Greek: -πλοκος (-plokos) (e.g. πολύπλοκος (polúplokos))
• *plok-o-nos (perhaps)
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic:
    • Latvian: plakans (“flat, even”)
    • Lithuanian: plakãnas (“flat”)
• *ploḱ-éh₂
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: πλοκή (plokḗ)
• *plók-e- (perhaps)
  • Proto-Germanic: *flahaną (“to flay, strip”)
• plók-eh₂ (perhaps)
  • Proto-Germanic: *flahō (“strip”)
    • Old Norse: flá (“strip of land, meadow”)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic:
    • Lithuanian: plokščias

References

• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN