Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/debelъ

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This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *debelas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeb-e-lo-s, from *dʰeb- (fat, heavy, thick); about the suffix, compare *tęželъ and *veselъ. Cognate with Latvian depsis (small, fat boy), Old Prussian debīkan, debica (big), Proto-Germanic *dapraz.

Adjective[edit]

*dȅbelъ[1][2]

  1. fat

Declension[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “дебе́лый”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References[edit]

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*debelъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 97:adj. o ‘fat’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “debelъ debela debelo”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c stark, fat (PR 138)