εὐλή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Frisk, it is an old verbal noun from εἰλέω (eiléō, “to turn, roll”), which is from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind”), properly meaning "that which winds or coils". However, a prothetic vowel *ἐ-ϝλ-ή is impossible, unless *h₁uel- is assumed; however, this would give ὑλ-. In view of all these considerations, Beekes prefers a Pre-Greek origin for this word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.lɛ̌ː/ → /eˈβli/ → /eˈvli/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.lɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ewˈle̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈβli/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈvli/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈvli/

Noun

εὐλή • (eulḗ) f (genitive εὐλῆς); first declension

1. worm, maggot, larva of the fly

Inflection

First declension of ἡ εὐλή; τῆς εὐλῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ εὐλή hē eulḗ	τὼ εὐλᾱ́ tṑ eulā́	αἱ εὐλαί hai eulaí
Genitive	τῆς εὐλῆς tês eulês	τοῖν εὐλαῖν toîn eulaîn	τῶν εὐλῶν tôn eulôn
Dative	τῇ εὐλῇ têi eulêi	τοῖν εὐλαῖν toîn eulaîn	ταῖς εὐλαῖς taîs eulaîs
Accusative	τὴν εὐλήν tḕn eulḗn	τὼ εὐλᾱ́ tṑ eulā́	τᾱ̀ς εὐλᾱ́ς tā̀s eulā́s
Vocative	εὐλή eulḗ	εὐλᾱ́ eulā́	εὐλαί eulaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “εὐλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εὐλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “εὐλή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• εὐλή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “εὐλή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 480