au-lo-s (: ēu-l-) (*heu-l-)

    au-lo-s (: ēu-l-) [*heu-l-]

    English meaning: tube, hole, *street

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Röhre, längliche Höhlung”

    Material: Gk. αὐλός m. “ pipe flute, long cavity “, ἔν-αυλος m. “ riverbed “, αὐλών m. f. “ mountain valley, gulch, ditch, canal, strait “; O.C.S. ulьjь, Lith. aulỹs and secondarily avilỹs “ beehive “, originally the cavity in the tree in which the swarm settles;

    Note: [probably O.C.S. avilỹs “ beehive “ < vaulỹs; but prothetic v- before bare initial vowels has been attested in Illyr., Alb. and Slav. tongues; maybe through metathesis au > ua Alb. tosk (*hau-lo-) huall, Gheg huell, hoje pl. “ beehive, cavity “ = Lat. alvus “ beehive, cavity” [common Alb. shift l > j], Alb. hollë “narrow, thin”, Alb. is the only language to have preserved the old laryngeal ḫ-. Clearly the Lat. cognate derived from Illyr. and Slav. cognates. From (*halvus, alhwus) Lat. alvus “beehive, cavity” derived Rom. albinů “bee”, Portuguese abelha “bee”, Spanish abeja “bee”, French abeille “bee” [common Italic and Greek -hw- > - b- phonetic mutatIon. O.C.S. ulica f. “ street, - in a built-up area - hollow, ravine, gorge, narrow pass “, Lith. aũlas f., O.Pruss. aulinis “ bootleg “, O.Pruss. aulis “ shinbone “. Maybe zero grade in Alb.Tosk udhë ullë “road, street” [the common Alb.-Illyr.-Lat. -dh- > -ll-, -d- > -l- shift] Maybe Root au-lo-s (: ēu-l-) : “tube, hole, *street” derived from Root u̯eĝh- : “to move, carry, drive” [common Alb. -ĝh- > -d- phonetic mutation] Arm. uɫ, uɫi “ way “ and (compare the meaning “ belly “ from Lat. alvus) yɫi “ pregnant “ (with ablaut ū, Pedersen KZ. 39, 459; derivatives uɫarkem and ylem “ send in “)*);

    -------

    *) Arm. word with the ablaut grade IE ū̆. from with the same Ltv. ula, ulá “ wheel hub “? (would be the “ tubularly hole “ in which the axis is inserted; Lidén IF. 19, 321).

    -------

    nNor. aul, aule and (with IE ēu- as a high step to au-) jōl “ angelica silvestris “, O.N. (huann-) jōli “ the hollow stems of angelica archangelica “, both plants call in Norway also sløke, whose basic meaning likewise “ tube, pipe “ is (Falk-Torp 474 and 1492 under jol and from Schroeder to Gmc. ablaut 58 f. likewise boat name jolle “dinghy”). Here with Lat. rearrangement of aul- tu alu̯- also alvus m. f. “ belly, womb, stomach; hold of a ship, beehive “, alveus “ a hollow, cavity, trough; hence boat; also the hold of a ship; bathtub; bed of a stream; beehive; gaming-table “, although time and limitation of the rearrangement are still totally unclear (see Thurneysen IF. 21, 177, Sommer Hdb.2 78).

    References: WP. I 25 f., WH. I 34 f., different Banateanu REtlE 1, 122.