Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aluþScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aluþ
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Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 13)RickDerksenBrill2015Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritageBirgit AnetteOlsenBerlin New YorkMouton de Gruyter1999ISBN: 978-3-11-016483-1; callNumber: 491.992 5Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)Michielde VaanBrill2008The etymology of English aleHaraldBjorvandJournal of Indo-European Studies 35(1–2)1–82007A history of East Baltic through language contact. Leiden Studies in Indo-European 24AnthonyJakobLeiden & BostonBrill2024Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja (EVE)SanteriJunttilaSampsa HolopainenPetri KallioJuha KuokkalaJuho PystynenHelsinki2020–https://sanat.csc.fi/wiki/EVE%3Aolut*h₂elut-beerअ॒रु॒षreddish𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬱𐬀bright, whiteeloyellowish, reddishաւղիstrong drinkalùsbeer*olutbeerӕлутонbeeralūmenalum
nounneuterconsonant stembeer, aleA neuter consonant stem of uncertain deeper etymology, usually compared with Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-. Kroonen 2013: 23–24 notes that no generally accepted etymology exists. Bjorvand 2007 derives Germanic *alú-þ- from earlier *olú-t-, and connects *alu- with Vedic Sanskrit अ॒रु॒ष, Avestan 𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬱𐬀, and Old High German elo, hence originally ‘golden/pale beverage’. Possible inherited cognates include Old Armenian աւղիOlsen 1999: 443 and Lithuanian alùs. Derksen 2015: s.v. alus notes that the Baltic and Slavic forms may be borrowings from Germanic, but Jakob 2024: 41 specifically rejects the widespread analysis of the latter as a Germanic loan, since a donor *aluþ- should have preserved some trace of the stem-final dental. Proto-Finnic *olut, by contrast, is most plausibly derived from late Proto-Scandinavian **ǫluþ-, after *a had been rounded but before loss of the second syllable, providing strong evidence for the dental stem at that stage Junttila et al. 2020–: s.v. olut. Ossetian ӕлутон has been treated as a Germanic loan by Kroonen but as an inherited cognate by Bjorvand Bjorvand 2007Kroonen 2013: 23–24. Alternatively, the European beer words may belong with Latin alūmen through *alu- ‘bitter substance’, perhaps ultimately from a European substrate de Vaan 2008: 36.