Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/gilˀtás

This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

Alternative forms

• *gelˀtás

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃-tós (zero-grade), *ǵʰelh₃-tós (full-grade) with depalatalization, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”).

Adjective

*gilˀtás

1. yellow

Descendants

• Proto-Slavic: *žьltъ (see there for further descendants)

From *gelˀtás:

• East Baltic:
  • ⇒ Latgalian: dzaltons
  • Latvian: dzelts (dialectal)
    • ⇒ Latvian: dzeltens, dzeltns; dzeltēns, dzeltāns, dzeltains (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Old Lithuanian: geltónas
    • Lithuanian: geltónas
    • Samogitian: geltuons
  • Lithuanian: gel̃tas
• West Baltic:
  • ⇒ Old Prussian: gelatynan (n. pl.?) (probably a mistranscribed *geltaynan)

Further reading

• SEJL², page 466‒467: “gel̃tas”
• LKEŽDB, “geltas”, “geltonas”
• LEV, page 247: “dzeltens”