el-5, ol- (*hel-)

    el-5, ol- (*hel-)

    English meaning: to destroy

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “vernichten, verderben”??

    Material: Arm. eɫeṙn, gen. eɫeṙan “misfortune”; oɫorm “ unlucky “; Gk. ὄλλυμι ‘spoil” (*ολ-νυ:-μι), Fut. ὀλέσω, perf. ὀλώλεκα (older intrans. ὄλωλα) etc., after Schwyzer Gk. I 747 ὀλ- instead of *ἐλ- after the causative *ὀλέω; ὀλέκω “destroy”, ὄλεθρος m. “ruin”; after Loth (RC 40, 371) here M.Bret. el-boet “hunger” (to boet “nourishment, food”), Bret. (Vannes) ol-buid “ lack of food “, ol-argant “lack of money” etc., perhaps also O.Ir. el-tes “ lukewarm “ (tes “heat”); about Lat. aboleō “to destroy, abolish, efface, put out of the way, annihilate” s. WH. I 4 f.; if el- lies as a basis for roots elg-, elk- ? possibly Hitt. hu-ul-la-a-i “ he defeats, destroys “, Couvreur H̯ 134 f., different Hendriksen, Laryngaltheorie 27, 47.

    References: WP. 1159 f., Schwyzer Gk. I 361, 363, 696, 747, Petersson Heterokl. 159.