μῶλυς
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFor μωλύω (mōlúō, “to parboil, scald, simmer”), compare κωλύω (kōlúō). Because of the unclear meaning and formation, this adjective is etymologically hard to assess. Connection with μέλεος (méleos, “idle, useless, vain”) does not explain the long vowel -ω-. Comparison with μῶλος (môlos, “toil and moil”) is mentioned by Pokorny. As Frisk remarks, everything remains hypothetical. According to Beekes, the suffix -υκ- looks Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɔ̂ː.lys/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lis/
Adjective
editμῶλῠς • (môlus) m or f (neuter μῶλῠ); third declension
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “μῶλυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μῶλυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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