Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pel-

*pel- [1][2]

1. to cover, to wrap
2. skin, hide, cloth

• *pél-n-eh₂ ~ *pl-én-eh₂[3][4][5]
  • Balto-Slavic: [Term?]
    • Slavic: *pelenà (“diaper”), *pelna (see there for further descendants)
• *pél-no-s[3][5]
  • Germanic: *fellą (“skin, hide”)[5] (see there for further descendants)
  • Italic: *pelnis (< *pél-ni-s[5])[4]
    • Latin: pellis (“pelt, hide”) (see there for further descendants)
• *pél-sḱo-s
  • Albanian: *plaska
    • Albanian: plah (“to cover”, denomative)
• *pl-ēn-(y)éh₂[3][4][5]
  • Balto-Slavic: *plėni(a) (“membrane”)
    • Latvian: plēne
    • Lithuanian: plėnė̃, plėnìs
    • Old Prussian: pleynis
    • Slavic: *plěnà
      • Czech: plena
      • Russian: плена́ (plená)
      • Slovene: plẹ́na

*pel-

1. to fold

• *pleḱ-

• *pl-o-
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: -πλός (-plós) (e.g. ἁπλός (haplós), διπλός (diplós))
  • Italic:
    • Latin: -plus (e.g. simplus, duplus)
• *pel-t-
  • Germanic: *falþaną
• *pl̥-t-o-
  • Celtic: *ɸaltom (“joint”)
    • Old Irish: alt
      • Irish: alt
      • Scottish Gaelic: alt
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: -παλτος (-paltos) (e.g. τρίπαλτος (trípaltos))
• *pl̥-t-yo-
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: -πλάσιος (-plásios) (e.g. τριπλάσιος (triplásios))
• Unsorted formations:
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: -πλόος (-plóos), -πλοῦς (-ploûs) (e.g. ἁπλόος (haplóos), ἁπλοῦς (haploûs), διπλόος (diplóos), διπλοῦς (diploûs))

*pel- [6]

1. alternative reconstruction of *pelH- (“pale, gray”)

• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag