σίαλος

Ancient Greek

The word has been connected with Ancient Greek σίαλον (síalon, “spittle, slobber”), Old English þwīnan (“to become weak”) and Proto-Slavic *tyti (“to become fat”) but all these proposals seem unconvincing. Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

σίᾰλος • (síalos) m (genitive σῐάλου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῐ́ᾰλος ho síalos	τὼ σῐᾰ́λω tṑ siálō	οἱ σῐ́ᾰλοι hoi síaloi
Genitive	τοῦ σῐᾰ́λου toû siálou	τοῖν σῐᾰ́λοιν toîn siáloin	τῶν σῐᾰ́λων tôn siálōn
Dative	τῷ σῐᾰ́λῳ tôi siálōi	τοῖν σῐᾰ́λοιν toîn siáloin	τοῖς σῐᾰ́λοις toîs siálois
Accusative	τὸν σῐ́ᾰλον tòn síalon	τὼ σῐᾰ́λω tṑ siálō	τοὺς σῐᾰ́λους toùs siálous
Vocative	σῐ́ᾰλε síale	σῐᾰ́λω siálō	σῐ́ᾰλοι síaloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“σίαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“σίαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“σίαλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
σίαλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
σίαλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN