Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/želězo

Etymology
Likely of origin, related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, with no clear cognates in other Indo-European branches. The discrepancy of root vocalism between Slavic and Baltic is problematic and requires two different Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstructions, with short and long. Thus, no common form can be reconstructed. Latvian and Old Prussian have syncopated the suffixal.

Has been compared with Ancient Greek, but the connection cannot be established in terms of regular phonetic correspondences. However, both could be independent loanwords from a common eastern source, whence also possibly Hittite. Possibly related to 🇨🇬, though the direction and exact details of the borrowing are obscure.

Semantically also close to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, possibly from 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  iron

Descendants

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