Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *falkôScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_falkô
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Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: WortbildungslehreHansKraheWolfgangMeidWalter de Gruyter1969Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynasVytautasMažiulisMokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla31996The 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 5*palvēgrayish, brownish*(s)pel-
nounmasculinean-stemfalconProbably from a Proto-Germanic color base *fal- ‘pale, grayish, yellowish-brown’, related to *falwaz (‘pale, gray, fallow’), with a zoonymic *-k-extension, perhaps the same animal/bird-name suffix seen in *habukaz (‘hawk’), *alkǭ (‘a kind of sea bird, auk’), and Proto-West Germanic *kranuk (‘crane’) Krahe & Meid 1969Olsen 1999. A close semantic parallel is Old Prussian *pelē ‘harrier’, which Mažiulis 1996 explains as a color-based bird name meaning ‘the grayish/brownish one’, from Proto-Baltic *pelā-/*pela- ‘grayish, brownish’, ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *(s)pel- ‘shine weakly, shimmer’. Mažiulis explicitly connects Old Prussian *palvē (Proto-Baltic *palva-;, ‘grayish, brownish’) with Proto-Germanic *falwaz and favors a Proto-Indo-European verbal root *(s)p(H)el- ‘shine weakly, shimmer’.