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PIE. *pelth₂- 'flat'

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IPA

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PGm. *felþa- m. ‘field’ < PIE. *pélth₂-o-. "Derived from the PIE root *pelth₂- 'flat'. " (GK). Alternatively: "The root would mean v. 'to spread'. Gmc.. has a t-erweiterung; m-formans in palámē, Lat. palma, OE. folm, folma etc. 'palm of the hand'; also OCS. polje 'field', Lat. plānus 'plain', etc." (DB). According to CDB, the German and English words originally meant 'field' in the most general sense (OHG, MHG, OE), before becoming more specialised to mean 'tract of land for cultivation' (ME, E, G).
Guus Kroonen. "felþa-" in: Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic. Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online. Edited by Alexander Lubotsky. Brill, 2014. Brill Online. September 2, 2014. < http://iedo.brillonline.nl.ludwig.lub.lu.se/dictionaries/lemma.html?id=20988 >, PGm. *fuldō- f. ‘earth, ground, field, the world’ < IE *plth₂-éh₂-"The Germanic and Indo-Iranian forms continue a feminine form of the adj. 'flat'. " (GK): compare PGm. *felþa-, masculine, from the same root. "In Indo-European, it presumably occurred with the word for 'land' in a sacral context" (GK)., PSl. *pȍļe n. 'field'. General Slavic for plain, field, expanse of open ground... "from the same root as OE feld etc" (CDB). According to DB, discussing OFris. feld, the root means v. 'to spread': compare Lat. palma, OE. folm, folma etc. 'palm of the hand'; also OCS. polje 'field', Lat. plānus 'plain', etc."
Rick Derksen. "pȍļe" in: Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon. Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online. Edited by Alexander Lubotsky. Brill, 2014. Brill Online. September 2, 2014. < http://iedo.brillonline.nl.ludwig.lub.lu.se/dictionaries/lemma.html?id=19775 >

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