英语词汇“Indo-European root: pelə-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: pelə-

释义

‌‌pelə-¹
To fill; with derivatives referring to abundance and multitude. Oldest form *pelh₁‑; variant *pleh₁‑, becoming *plē‑.
Derivatives include fill, plenty, folk, accomplish, expletive, and plebeian.

Zero-grade form *pl̥ə‑.
1. Suffixed form *pl̥ə-no‑. full¹, from Old English full, full, from Germanic *fulnaz, *fullaz, full.
2. fill, from Old English fyllan, to fill (from Germanic derivative verb *fulljan, to fill), and fyllu, full amount (from Germanic abstract noun *full-īnō‑, fullness).
3. gefilte fish, from Old High German fullen, to fill, from Germanic derivative verb *fulljan, from *fulla‑, full (see 1 above).
4. plenary, plenitude, plenty, plenum; plenipotentiary, replenish, terreplein, from Latin plēnus, full, from Latin stem *plēno‑, replacing *plāno‑ (influenced by Latin verb plēre, to fill; see IV. 1. below).
5. Suffixed form *pl̥ə-go‑.
  1. folk, from Old English folc, people;
  2. Herrenvolk, volkslied, from Old High German folc, people. Both a and b from Germanic *folkam.
Suffixed form *p(e)lə-u‑.
1. Obscure comparative form. più, plural, plus; nonplus, pluperfect, surplus, from Latin plūs, more (Archaic Latin plous). See also IV. 5. below.
2. O-grade form *pol(ə)-u‑. poly-; hoi polloi, from Greek polus, much, many.
3. Possibly from this root (but probably rather from pel-¹) is Latin palūs, marsh (? < "inundated"): paludal, palustrine.
Suffixed form *p(e)lə-o‑. Latin compound manipulus (see man-²).
Variant form *plē‑.
1. accomplish, complete, compliment, comply, deplete, expletive, implement, replete, supply, from Latin plēre, to fill.
2. Possibly suffixed form *plē-dhw‑. plebe, plebeian, plebs; plebiscite, from Latin plēbs, plēbēs, the people, multitude.
3. Suffixed form *plē-dhwo‑. plethora; plethysmograph, from Greek derivative verb plēthein, to be full.
4. Suffixed adjective (positive) form *plē-ro‑. plerocercoid, from Greek plērēs, full.
5. Suffixed (comparative) form *plē-i(s)on‑. pleo-, pleonasm; pleiotropy, Pliocene, from Greek pleōn, pleiōn, more.
6. Suffixed (superlative) form *plē-isto‑. Pleistocene, from Greek pleistos, most.
Possibly Sanskrit pūraḥ, cake (< "that which fills or satisfies"): poori.

[Pokorny 1. pel‑ 798.]

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