Baltic *kalu̯ā “hill”. In: Baltìstikos platýbėse. Baltų kalbotyros straipsnių rinkinys, skirtas prof. Bonifaco Stundžios 70 metų jubilie¬jui, ed. by Agnė Navickaitė-Klišauskienė, Vytautas Rinkevičius, Daiva Sinkevičiūtė, Miguel Villanueva Svensson

• Authors: BLAŽEK Václav
• Year of publication: 2022
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Arts
• Description: The purpose of this contribution is to separate Baltic *kalu?a “hill” from Baltic *kalnas “mountain” and to connect it with Indo-Aryan *ku´lva-, Iranian *karu?a- „thin-haired“; Greek *kólwos “docked, hornless”; Italic *kalau?o- & *kalau?a “bald (head)”, and the Pre-Romance oronym *kalauos, besides the Gaulish cognomen calaua. The semantic shift from “bald” to “hill” is supported by numerous examples of “bald hills”.

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