Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *alīnōScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_alīnō
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Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 10/1)RobertBeekesBrill2010Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 9)RankoMatasovićBrill2009aSingulative n-stems in Indo-European10.1111/1467-968X.12058TijmenPronkTransactions of the Philological Society, 1131133327-3482015The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English, 2)DonRingeAnnTaylorOxfordOxford University Press2014Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)Michielde VaanBrill2008Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen IIAlbert L.LloydRosemarieLührOttoSpringerVandenhoeck & Ruprecht1998https://ewa.saw-leipzig.de/deὠλένηelbow, lower arm*Heh₃l-to bow, bend; elbowulnaforearmuilenelbow, angleelinelbow𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰ell, cubit
nounfeminineō-stemforearm; elbowell, cubit; a unit of length based on the forearmFrom pre-Germanic *olīnā ~ *olenā, ultimately a feminine *-eh₂ extension of an Indo-European n-stem meaning ‘elbow’. The underlying noun was an ablauting body-part n-stem, reconstructed by Pronk 2015: 333–34 as *h₃eh₁-l-n- ~ *h₃h₁-el-n-, probably originally with singulative function; it belongs to the conventionally reconstructed root *Heh₃l-, though the precise laryngeals are uncertain de Vaan 2008: 638. Cognate with Ancient Greek ὠλένη, Latin ulna, Old Irish uilen, and Welsh elinBeekes 2010: 1678–79Matasović 2009a: 297–98. Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰 points to *alīnō, while North and West Germanic reflect shortened *alinō; alternatively, inherited suffixal variants may underlie the difference Kroonen 2013: 22Lloyd et al. 1998: s.v. elina. Ringe and Taylor 2014: 236 instead reconstruct *alinō and regard the Gothic long vowel as unexplained.