Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *halbazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_halbaz
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šali̇̀sside, strip of landकॢप्to manage, succeed, be fit*(s)kelH-
adja-stemhalfApparently from a pre-Germanic *kolp-ó-s, of unclear further origin. Possibly from a p-extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (‘to cut’) (through a sense “divided”), and cognate with Sanskrit कॢप् (kḷp, ‘to manage, succeed, be fit’) (though Kroonen is skeptical due to the wide semantic gap), or from a stem *ḱol-bʰo-, and cognate with Lithuanian šali̇̀s (‘side, strip of land’). Alternatively, a recent theory suggests borrowing from Proto-Finnic *halpa, *halba- (‘cheap, reduced’) (compare Finnish halpa (‘cheap’), Estonian halb (‘bad’)), itself possibly from Proto-Germanic *salwaz (‘sallow, dirty’).