Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *felþuzScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_felþuz
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Das Korn des weiten Feldes. Interne Derivation, Derivationskette und Flexionsklassenhierarchie: Aspekte der nominalen Wortbildung im UrindogermanischenPaulWidmerInstitut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck2004𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬎broadπλατύςbroad, flat*pélth₂-u-level surface, flatnessपृथुbroad, wide
nounmasculineu-stemfield, plainFrom Proto-Indo-European *pélth₂-u- (‘level surface, flatness’), the e-grade stem of an o/e-acrostatic u-stem abstract *pólth₂-u ~ *pélth₂-u-s, derived from *pléth₂-u-s ~ *pl̥th₂-éu-s (‘broad, flat, level’), from root *pleth₂- (‘to spread out, become broad)’. Cognate with Sanskrit पृथु (pṛthú-, ‘broad, wide’), Avestan 𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬎 (pərəθu-, ‘broad’), and Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, ‘broad, flat’). The semantic development was ‘flat, level’ → ‘level surface, plain’ → ‘field, cultivated flat ground’ Widmer 2004.