bělъ

bě́lъ Grammatical information: adj. o Accent paradigm: b Proto-Slavic meaning: `white'

Page in Trubačev: II 79-81

Old Church Slavic:

bělъ `white' [adj o]

Russian:

bélyj `white' [adj o];

bel `white' [adj o], belá [Nomsf], bélo [Nomsn] \{1\}

Czech:

bílý `white' [adj o]

Slovak:

biely `white' [adj o]

Polish:

biaɫy `white' [adj o]

Slovincian:

bjáu̯lï `white' [adj o]

Serbo-Croatian:

bȉjel, bȉo `white' [adj o], bijȅla [Nomsf], bijèlo [Nomsn];

Čak. bĩ(l) (Vrgada) `white' [adj o], bīlȁ [Nomsf], bīlȍ [Nomsn];

Čak. bⁱȇl (Orbanići) `white' [adj o], bⁱelȁ [Nomsf], bⁱȇlȍ [Nomsn]

Slovene:

bẹ́ɫ `white' [adj o]

Bulgarian:

bjal `white' [adj o]

Lithuanian:

bãlas `white' [adj o] 4;

báltas `white' [adj o] 3

Latvian:

bā̀ls `pale' [adj o];

bãls `pale' [adj o];

bal̃ts `white' [adj o]

Certainty: +

Page in Pokorny: 118

Comments: The fact that this etymon belongs to AP (b), which implies an non-acute root, does not pose any problems if one assumes that the regular reflex of a lengthened grade vowel was circumflex. We may reconstruct *bʰēlH-o-, with regular loss of the root-final laryngeal.

Notes:

\{1\} AP (b) in Old Russian (Zaliznjak 1985: 136).