vello.
to pluck out (feathers, etc.)
Meaning & usage
to pluck out (feathers, etc.)
to depilate
to pull or tear down; to demolish
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Italic *welnō, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“to hit, strike”) (whence also vulnus, Czech válka, Old Norse valkyrja). The past participle was analogously changed from Proto-Italic *woltos to vulsus; a more logical outcome would be *vultus. See pellō for a similar analogy. Compare typologically a semantic shift in the opposite direction Russian дра́ться (drátʹsja) <драть (dratʹ) (akin to выдира́ть (vydirátʹ)).
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