- kel-1, kelǝ-
- kel-1, kelǝ-English meaning: to tower, be high; hill; *projection, protrusionDeutsche Übersetzung: “ragen, hoch (heben)”Material: Gk. κολωνός, κολώνη “hill”, κολοφών m. “ acme, apex, cusp, peak” instead of *κολαφών due to an *kolṇ-bho-s); Lat. ante-, ex-, prae-cellō, -ere “hervorragen” (*cel-d-ō with präsensbildendem -d-), participle celsus “high”; collis “hill” (*kl̥n-is or *koln-is); columen, newer culmen “ acme, apex, Höhepunkt” (*kelomn̥ “elevation”), columna “ column “ (*kelomnü “die ragende”); M.Ir. coll “ head, guide, leader” (*kolnos); Gaul. celicnon “tower” (out of it Goth. kelikn ‘söller”); gallorom. calma “ödes Land” is probably vorCelt.; maybe Alb. (*culmen) kulm “ridge, peak”. O.E. hyll m. f., Eng. hill “hill” (*hulnis, IE *kḷnis); O.S. holm “hill”, Ger. Holm, O.E. holm “island, Meereswoge, (hohe) sea”, O.Ice. holmr, holmi ‘small island” (*kḷmo-); maybe Alb. (*holm) kolmë “fat, big, huge” maybe Alb. (*hill-arya), Illyria “hilly land”, (*Hilion), Ilion “city built on a hill”), also Gk. Olympus (*holum) “mountain in Northern Greece, home of the gods” [common Illyr. Alb. m > mp phonetic mutatIon.] Lith. keliù, kélti (heavy basis) “heave, life, emporheben, bear, carry, ũbers Wasser befördern”, Ltv. ceĺt “heave, life”, Lith. išké ltas .convex, elevated”, kálnas, Ltv. kal̂ns “mountain”, compare Lith. kalvà f. “ small hill”, Ltv. kalva “hill, Flußinsel”; in addition Lith. kìlti ‘sich erheben, aufsetigen”, iškilù s “high”, kilme ̃ f. “ lineage, gender, sex”, kìltis and kiltìs f., Ltv. cil̂ts f. “gender, sex”; Ltv. kal”a f. “Hebel”; Lith. kélnas m. “Fähre, barge”, Lith. kélta f., kéltas m. = kéltuvas m. “Fähre”; Ltv. cel̂tava f. ‘small Fähre”; Slav. *cьlnъ m. in Ser.-Cr. čû n (gen. čû na), “barge”, Cz. člun , Russ. čoɫn “boat, Weberschifflein”; O.Bulg. čelo “forehead”, Russ. čeló “forehead, head, cusp, peak” etc., R.C.S. čelesьnъ “praecipuus” (originally -es-stem). maybe Alb. (*čelo) çaloj “walk with a limp (*waving like a boat)”, çalë “lame” It seems that Root ĝenu-1, ĝneu- : (knee, joint) derived from *koln : (to tower, be high; hill, project). Proto-Slavic form: kolě̀no (knee) [see ĝenu-1, ĝneu- : (knee, joint)]References: WP. I 433 ff., WH. I 197, 245, 249 f., 855, Trautmann 125 f.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.