Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *bēląScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_bēlą
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The development of the Proto-Indo-European instrumental suffix in GermanicGuusKroonenIndogermanische Forschungen1221105–1102017
nounneutera-stemfirepyreProbably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-tló-m from root bʰeh₁- (‘to foment; warm; bathe’) with an instrument suffix Kroonen 2017, thus ‘an instrument of warming’. This etymology does not suffer the issue of the unexplained lengthened grade of an etymology from *bʰel- (‘? to blaze, burn; to glow, shine, be bright or brightly colored; ? bright flame, fire; shiny white’).