bál
Old Norse
noun
Definitions
- fire
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *bēlą (pyre) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (shine, swell, blow, inflate, roar, sound, gleam, bark, white, shiny, light, speak, be white, bright, yell, swell up, blow up, shimmer, bubble, sparkle).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰel-
Gloss
shine, swell, blow, inflate, roar, sound, gleam, bark, white, shiny, light, speak, be white, bright, yell, swell up, blow up, shimmer, bubble, sparkle
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
白
Emoji
🌟 ⭐️ 🌟 🌠 💡 🔦 🕯️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- blick English
- booli Finnish
- blattea Latin
- effulgēns Latin
- fulgeo Latin
- fulica Latin
- βαλιός Ancient Greek
- φάλλαινα Ancient Greek
- φαλακρός Ancient Greek
- φαλλός Ancient Greek
- φαλός Ancient Greek
- φλέγω Ancient Greek
- φλέψ Ancient Greek
- φύλλον Ancient Greek
- *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰln- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰléh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰlī- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰl̥H-i- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰl̥no- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰoln- Proto-Indo-European
- bål Norwegian Bokmål
- leirbål Norwegian Bokmål
- *balþaz Proto-Germanic
- *bellaną Proto-Germanic
- *blajinǭ Proto-Germanic
- *blasaz Proto-Germanic
- *blasǭ Proto-Germanic
- *blisk Proto-Germanic
- *blēsaną Proto-Germanic
- *blīkaną Proto-Germanic
- *bēlą Proto-Germanic
- bål Swedish
- bål Norwegian Nynorsk
- leirbål Norwegian Nynorsk
- blician Old English
- bylgian Old English
- bæl Old English
- þrotbolla Old English
- भाल Sanskrit
- bal Middle English
- bali Old Norse
- bolr Old Norse
- bål Danish
- *bolto Proto-Slavic
- bál Icelandic
- bilst Latvian
- բալ Old Armenian
- bál Faroese
- *ballos Proto-Celtic
- *bello Proto-Celtic
- *blā Proto-Celtic
- baltã Aromanian
- *flagmā Proto-Italic
- baltas Lithuanian
- *bala Proto-Albanian
- *balā Proto-Albanian
- *bulna Proto-Albanian
- *bolʔto Proto-Balto-Slavic
- պլոր Middle Armenian
- päl- Tocharian B
- *bela Gaulish
- päl- Tocharian A
- balts Samogitian