bhel-6

    bhel-6

    English meaning: to sound, speak, onomatopoeic words

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schallen, reden, brũllen, bellen”; Schallwurzel

    Material: O.Ind. bhaṣá-ḥ “barking, baying” (*bhel-s-), bhüṣ atē “talks, speaks, prattles”; bhaṇḍatē (Dhatup.) ‘speaks, jeers, rebukes” (*bhel-n-dō), bháṇati “talks, speaks” (*bhel-nō) are after Kuiper Proto-Munda 32 f. nichtIE O.Ice. belja “roar, bellow”, M.Du. belen “bark, bay”; O.Ice. bylja, bulda “threaten, drone, roar”, bylr “gust of wind”, O.E. bylgan “roar, bellow”, M.H.G. boln “cry, roar, bellow”; With Gmc. ll (consonant increase in the onomatopoeic words), O.H.G. bellan “bark, bay”, O.E. bellan “roar, bellow, bark, bay, grunt”; O.H.G. bullōn “howl (from the wind), bark, bay, roar, bellow”, Ice.-Nor. bulla “babble, chat”; O.Ice. bjalla, O.E. belle, Eng. bell, M.L.G. belle “bell”, Ger. (lit. N.Ger.) Bellhammel “bellwether (with bell)”; With Gmc. ld (probably from a present dh- and perhaps with Lith. bìldu to compare, because latter contains most probably IE dh) Dan. baldre, Nor. dial. baldra, schwed dial. ballra “rant, roister” M.L.G. Dutch balderen ds., Dan. buldre, Swe. bullsa, M.L.G. Dutch bulderen, bolderen, M.H.G. buldern, Ger. poltern; O.Pruss. billit ‘say, speak”, Lith. bìlstu, bilaũ, bìlti “to start to talk “, bīlu, biloti “talk”, bilóju, -óti ‘say, talk”, byl-aũ, -óti ds., bylà ‘speech, pronunciation, conversation, entertainment”, Ltv. bil̂stu, bil̂žu, bil̂st (in Zs.) “talk, address, speak to”, bil̂dêt “address, speak to”; Ltv. bil̨̃l̨ât (from *bil̨n̨a) “weep, cry”; with formants -so- Lith. bal̃sas “voice, sound, tone”; Toch. AB päl-, pül- “praise, laud” (Van Windekens Lexique 89).

    References: WP. II 182, WH. I 516, Trautmann 25.

    See also: From this derived *bhlē- “bleat”.