Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/heliwos

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This Proto-Italic 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-Italic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From earlier *xeliwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wos.

Adjective[edit]

*heliwos

  1. yellow

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Latin: helvus

References[edit]

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “helvus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 282