- kal-2, kali-, kalu-
- kal-2, kali-, kalu-English meaning: handsome; healthyDeutsche Übersetzung: ‘schön, gesund”Material: O.Ind. kalyá- “fit, healthy, lively “, kalyǘ ṇ a- “beautiful, heilsam” (-üṇ a- = *ülno- to Gk. ὠλένη, ὠλλόν, above S. 308 f.); Gk. *καλλο- = O.Ind. kalya- (?) as base from καλλίων, κάλλιστος ‘schöner, schönst”, κάλλος n. “beauty”. καλλύ̄νω “make beautiful”, Ion. καλλονή “beauty”, καλλι- as 1.composition part; besides with formants -u- böot. καλFός = Hom. κᾱλός, Att. etc. κᾰλός “beautiful”; in addition as Spottname καλλίᾱς “ape” and perhaps κάλλαιον n. (mostly pl.) “Hahnenkamm”. i-stem O.N. halr (*hali-) “man, husband, master, mister” (poet.), O.E. hæle(ð) “man, husband”, asächs. helið, O.H.G. helíd “man, husband, combatant, Held”, O.S. hälith, besides u-stem O.N. hǫldr “free Bauer, man, husband” (*haluÞ).References: WP. I 356, 443, Specht IE Decl. 128, 195; Seiler, The primären Gk. Steigerungsformen 68 ff.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.