gʷelbh-

    gʷelbh-

    English meaning: womb; young of animal

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Gebärmutter; Tierjunges”

    Material: O.Ind. gárbha-ḥ, Av. garǝwa- “womb, Leibesfrucht”, gǝrǝbuš n. “Tierjunges”; O.Ind. sá-garbhya-ḥ “eodem utero natus” (= Gk. ἀδελφεός ds.); Gk. δελφύς, -ύος f., Dor. δελφύᾱ “ womb, uterus” (see under); *δέλφος n. ds. as base from ἀδελφεός (Hom.) “couterinus, brother “ (*ἁ-δελφε[σ]-ός), next to which Att. ἀδελφός ds.; δέλφαξ m. f. “piglet”, δελφί̄ς, -ί̄νος m. “Delphin”, δολφός ἡ μήτρα Hes.; Specht (IE Decl. 268) reconstructs from Gk. ἀδελιφ-ήρ ἀδελφός. Λάκωνες (Hes.) eine originally root *gʷel-; the -us-stem kehrt again in O.H.G. kilbur n., chilburra f. “Mutterlamm”, O.E. cilforlamb ds. (besides of es-stem O.H.G. kilbira ds. and - with gradation о after o-stem as δολφός, gárbha-ḥ - Ger. Kalb, see above S. 359 under *gel-, *gelebh- “ clench “), die auf pure velaren anlaut weisen (as Gaul.-Lat. galba and Goth. kil-Þei “womb” etc.). Es lie various, but lautähnliche and hence gegenseitiger Beeinflussung ausgesetzte Sippen before: *gʷelbh-, *gʷerebh-, and from gel- extended bh-forms, die but in Gmc. presumably through absorption from gʷelbh-forms deren stem formation and spezifische meaning ũbernommen have.

    References: WP. I 692 f., WH. I 578, Schwyzer Gk. I 295.