Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁élem

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Noun

*h₁élem

mountain elm

Descendants

Germanic: *elmaz (see there for further descendants)
Italic: *olmos
- Latin: ulmus
Celtic: *lēmos
- Welsh: llwyf
Celtic: *lemos
- Old Irish: lem
Slavic: *jьlьmъ

References

Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 160

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