Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-European/h₁el-

Birds and deer
Should there be two different PIE words under h₁el-? The pages for 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 point to a PIE word h₁el- meaning a kind of bird. --Caoimhin (talk) 19:37, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
 * There are also various tree species which descend from the same root: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. This points towards color association rather than to a specific kind of flora or fauna. Most likely, the root referred to bright brown or gray. Bezimenen (talk) 12:30, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the meaning of waterbirds like the swan or goose is likely touching a general idea of a great animal (which geese and swans are as compared to other birds at the sea), as also because of the colour meaning “grey”. I list here the further words that agreeing with Pokorny puts hither
 * in addition to 🇨🇬 (probably not Swiss and, types of ducks, which must be assumed to be distorted from other words)
 * and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (I add: some meanings of 🇨🇬 which normally means a toad or male frog but had more wild meanings in antiquity)
 * the 🇨🇬 plant name
 * 🇨🇬 if this is not a mistake for.
 * Pokorny lists some 🇨🇬 words, 🇨🇬 we have for this root, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * possibly 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, more commonly put to.
 * Presumably something must be added to this PIE page, since some attested language entries already refer hither, or they have to be relieved of this comparison if the material is too weak (bird names are probably less stable than the names of the greater mammals). But I am not able to make up Proto-Indo-European derived terms.  maybe. Else this is the list to show for the other pages to argue that the links are too weak. Fay Freak (talk) 15:02, 14 March 2020 (UTC)