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bhel-2
To blow, swell; with derivatives referring to various round objects and to the notion of tumescent masculinity.
Derivatives include boulevard, boulder, phallus, balloon, ballot, and fool.- Zero-grade form bhl̥‑.
- bowl1, from Old English bolla, pot, bowl;
- bole1, from Old Norse bolr, tree trunk;
- bulk, from Old Norse bulki, cargo (< "rolled-up load");
- rocambole, from Old High German bolla, ball;
- boulevard, bulwark, from Middle High German bole, beam, plank;
- boll, from Middle Dutch bolle, round object;
- biltong, from Middle Dutch bille, buttock;
- boulder, from a Scandinavian source akin to Swedish bullersten, "rounded stone," boulder, from *buller‑, "round object." a-h all from Germanic *bul‑.
- Suffixed zero-grade form *bhl̥-n‑.
- bull1, from Old Norse boli, bull, from Germanic *bullōn‑;
- bullock, from Old English bulluc, bull, from Germanic *bulluka‑;
- phallus; ithyphallic, from Greek phallos, phallus;
- possibly Latin fullō, a fuller full2; refoulement.
- O-grade form *bhol‑.
- bollock, bollix, from Old English beallucas, testicles;
- ball1, from Old English *beall, ball;
- foosball, from Old High German bal, ball;
- bilberry, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Danish bolle, round roll;
- balloon, ballot, ballottement, from Italian dialectal balla, ball;
- pall-mall, from Italian palla, ball;
- bale1, from Old French bale, rolled-up bundle. a-g all from Germanic *ball‑.
- Possibly suffixed o-grade form *bhol-to‑.
- bold, from Old English bald, beald, bold;
- bawd, from Old Saxon bald, bold;
- Balder, from Old Norse ballr, baldr, brave. a-c from Germanic *balthaz, bold.
- Suffixed o-grade form *bhol-n‑. fils2, follicle, folly, fool, from Latin follis, bellows, inflated ball.
- Possibly Greek phal(l)aina, whale baleen.
- Conceivably from this root (but more likely unrelated) is Greek phellos, cork, cork oak phellem; phelloderm, phellogen.
[Pokorny 3. bhel‑ 120.]
The following derivatives of this root are entered separately: bhel-3, bhelgh-, bhleu-. |
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