- gel(ǝ)-3
- gel(ǝ)-3English meaning: coldDeutsche Übersetzung: “kalt, frieren”Material: Lat. gelū (also gelus, -ūs and gelum, -ī) “coldness, frost”, gelidus “cold”, gelō, -üre “ congeal, freeze “; Osc. γελαν “πάχνην” (Steph. Byz.); Gk. γελανδρόν ψυχρόν Hes. is perhaps incorrect according to (WH. I 867); gallorom. *gelandron “frost” (Hubschmied VRom. 3, 130) is better with Bertoldi (ZrPh. 56, 187) and Wartburg (see v. *gelandron) through influence of Lat. gelū on gallorom. *calandron ds. to explain (with mediterr. ending), to O.Ir. caile “(white) spot “; again different Specht Decl. 130; about gallorom.*gelabria “frost” s. Wartburg s. v. *calabra and gelabria; Hubschmid Praeromanica 18 ff. about Lat. glacies see under; O.N. kala, kōl “be cold, freeze “ (uPers. m. acc. mik kelr), O.E. calan ds. (hine orhim cælÞ “ it freezes “) with a through reshuffling of a Kaus. *kaljan = *golei̯ō “make cold”, whence also the iM.Pers. construction with acc.; O.E. ciele m. (nEng. chill) from *kali “coldness”; as a participle furthermore Goth. kalds, O.H.G. (etc.) kalt, Ger. kalt (in addition O.N. kelda from *kaltiōn- “ fountain, well, source of water “, finn. Lw. kaltio; with ablaut, due to the older form *kul-da- of participle, O.N. kuldi m. = M.L.G. kũlde f. “coldness”); lengthened grade O.E. cōl, O.H.G. kuoli, Ger. kũhl, whereof O.E. cēlan, O.H.G. kuolen, Ger. kũhlen, O.N. kø̄ la ds., zero grade O.N. kul (kol) n. “ chill breeze “, kylr m. “coldness”; with broken Redupl. IE *gla-g- (the base seems to have also been *gelǝ-), O.N. klaki m. “frozen earth’s crust “, wherewith Lat. glacies “ice” is to be connected under the assumption, that *glagiēs was reshaped after aciēs (and other words in -aciēs); here also Swiss challen “ solidify, congeal (from fat)”, O.E. cealer, calwer m. “ thick milk”, M.L.G. keller ds. (‘solidification “ is at first cooling off, e.g. from fat); O.H.G. chalawa, M.H.G. kalwe “ shudder, shiver “, probably originally “ shiver before showers as before cold “; after Machek (Slavia 16, 195) perhaps here with expressive ch- O.C.S. chladъ “coolness, coldness” (*gol-do-).References: WP. I 622, WH. I 585 f., 603, 867 f.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.