Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ḱley-

This entry contains Proto-Indo-European reconstructed words 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-Indo-European

Root

*ḱley-

1. to lean

Descendants

• Albanian:
  • Albanian: qetë, qye
• Armenian:
  • (?) Old Armenian: լեառն (leaṙn, “mountain”)
  • (?) Old Armenian: լինիմ (linim, “to be”)
• Balto-Slavic:
  • Slavic: *slojь
    • Czech: sloj
    • Serbo-Croatian: sloj
• Celtic: *klējos (“from the wrong side; left, north”)
  • Breton: kleiz
  • Cornish: cleth
  • Irish: clé
  • Welsh: cledd
• Germanic: *hlinōną
• Hellenic:
  • Ancient Greek: κλίνω (klinō)
    • English: climate, cline
• Italic:
  • Latin: clīnō, clīvus (“slope”)

References

• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, volume , page {{{1}}}
• 2001, Helmut Rix, Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben (in German), Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, ISBN 3-89500-219-4: