- selk-
- selk-English meaning: to drag; ploughDeutsche Übersetzung: “ziehen”Note: perhaps with u̯elk- to eines originally root su̯elk- to unite, s. lastly Specht KZ 66, 25 f.Material: Arm. heɫg ‘slow, idle” (compare to meaning zögern : ziehen, ducere tempus); Gk. ἕλκω “ziehe”, ὁλκή f., ὁλκός m. “pull; das Geschleppte etc.” = Lat. sulcus “furrow”, sulcō, - üre “pflũgen”, zero grade O.E. sulh “furrow, plough”, Alb. helq, heq “pull, pull down” (*solkei̯ō); O.H.G. selah, O.E. seolh, O.N. selr “ seal, Robbe” as ‘sich mũhsam towing “? Toch. В sälk- “herausziehen, vorfũhren”.References: WP. II 507 f., WH. II 627, Frisk 77.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.