*/zal(l)-/

Rieken 1997a suggests an attractive Indo-European etymology, thus reconstructing the root as *(s)k̑el- (missed in HEG W-Z:631f.). Due to the lack of certain cognates in Hittite or Lycian, in which the sound *k̑ would develop differently, this reconstruction cannot be absolutely confirmed (outdated Čop 1969a:43-45, who compares Hitt. zaluganu- (see EDHIL:1027f.); the connection with Lyc. zala-^(ti) is also considered here to be incorrect, pace HEG W-Z:630f., see Sasseville 2021a:58). To account for the geminate -ll- in e.g. zalla- ‘speed, movement’, Čop’s Law would be necessary, i.e. *k̑él-o-, unless one would assume a root-final *h₁. Further, the noun zalt(i)- c. ‘cart’ can be reconstructed as a derivative in *-to- (or *-ti-) from the root (verb), i.e. *k̑El-to-.

[D.S.]