τηλία
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
edit- σηλία (sēlía)
Etymology
editA technical expression in -ία (-ía), like σχεδία (skhedía), κλισία (klisía) and ἑστία (hestía). In the sense of "hoop of a sieve", this word and σηλία (sēlía) are often connected with σήθω (sḗthō, “to sieve”), but the derivation is unclear. In the meaning "table, board", the connection with Latin tellus (“earth”) and Sanskrit तल (tala, “bottom, floor”) is given by Pokorny.
Beekes claims that this cannot be upheld as Greek would have a lengthened grade formation, and further that for such a technical word, Pre-Greek origin is likely. Beekes further claims that the variation τ/σ is typical for Pre-Greek words, and that this word must originate there.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tɛː.lí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /te̝ˈli.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tiˈli.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tiˈli.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tiˈli.a/
Noun
editτηλῐ́ᾱ • (tēlíā) f (genitive τηλῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- board or table with a raised rim or edge
- table or stage whereon cocks and quails where set to fight
- chimney board, trapdoor
- hoop of a sieve
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ τηλῐ́ᾱ hē tēlíā |
τὼ τηλῐ́ᾱ tṑ tēlíā |
αἱ τηλῐ́αι hai tēlíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς τηλῐ́ᾱς tês tēlíās |
τοῖν τηλῐ́αιν toîn tēlíain |
τῶν τηλῐῶν tôn tēliôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ τηλῐ́ᾳ têi tēlíāi |
τοῖν τηλῐ́αιν toîn tēlíain |
ταῖς τηλῐ́αις taîs tēlíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν τηλῐ́ᾱν tḕn tēlíān |
τὼ τηλῐ́ᾱ tṑ tēlíā |
τᾱ̀ς τηλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s tēlíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | τηλῐ́ᾱ tēlíā |
τηλῐ́ᾱ tēlíā |
τηλῐ́αι tēlíai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
edit- “τηλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τηλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τηλία 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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
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