μαλλός
See also: Μαλλός
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editOf uncertain origin.
The connection with Lithuanian mìlas (“coarse wool”) has been abandoned. Greppin suggests that Armenian մալ (mal, “cattle”) is cognate with the Greek word. The Greek word only denotes the "flock of wool" and never the animal, but this may be a later semantic development. An Indo-European form *mh₂l- is rather improbable, however. The word may well be of substrate origin, with Beekes suggesting a borrowing from Pre-Greek, and Clackson suggesting a borrowing from Arabic, the latter which is also the prevailing theory for the Armenian cognate.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mal.lós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /malˈlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /malˈlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /malˈlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /maˈlos/
Noun
editμαλλός • (mallós) m (genitive μαλλοῦ); second declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μαλλός ho mallós |
τὼ μαλλώ tṑ mallṓ |
οἱ μαλλοί hoi malloí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μαλλοῦ toû malloû |
τοῖν μαλλοῖν toîn malloîn |
τῶν μαλλῶν tôn mallôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μαλλῷ tôi mallôi |
τοῖν μαλλοῖν toîn malloîn |
τοῖς μαλλοῖς toîs malloîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μαλλόν tòn mallón |
τὼ μαλλώ tṑ mallṓ |
τοὺς μαλλούς toùs malloús | ||||||||||
Vocative | μαλλέ mallé |
μαλλώ mallṓ |
μαλλοί malloí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- δασύμαλλος (dasúmallos)
- μαλλόδετος (mallódetos)
- μαλλοειδής (malloeidḗs)
- μάλλυκες (mállukes)
- μάλλωσις (mállōsis)
- μαλλωτάριον (mallōtárion)
- μαλλωτός (mallōtós)
- πηγεσίμαλλος (pēgesímallos)
References
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μαλλός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 899
Further reading
edit- “μαλλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μαλλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μαλλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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- Ancient Greek terms borrowed from substrate languages
- Ancient Greek terms derived from substrate languages
- Ancient Greek terms borrowed from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek terms borrowed from Arabic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Arabic
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension