Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁élem
Proto-Indo-European
Etymology
Compare Arabic نَشَم (našam, “elm”), which points to the Proto-Semitic form *Caśam-, the middle consonant of which is the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative /ɬ/; however, possibly not found in Semitic except in Arabic; likely a wanderwort. The same match pertains to Old Armenian թեղի (tʻełi, “elm”) and Ancient Greek πτελέα (pteléa, “wych-elm”)
Noun
*h₁élem
Descendants
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *elemas
- Proto-Slavic: *jьlьmъ (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Celtic: *lemos (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *elmaz (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *olmos
- Latin: ulmus (see there for further descendants)
References
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 160
- “Darja notes: Elms and kids' morphology”, in Jabal al-Lughat[1], 2016 July 25, archived from the original on 15 February 2018