χηλός
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editAccording to Beekes, it may belong with χήμη (khḗmē, “mussel”) to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁y- (“to gape, be wide open”), the same root of χάσκω (kháskō, “to yawn”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰɛː.lós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰe̝ˈlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /çiˈlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /çiˈlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /çiˈlos/
Noun
editχηλός • (khēlós) f (genitive χηλοῦ); second declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ χηλός hē khēlós |
τὼ χηλώ tṑ khēlṓ |
αἱ χηλοί hai khēloí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς χηλοῦ tês khēloû |
τοῖν χηλοῖν toîn khēloîn |
τῶν χηλῶν tôn khēlôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ χηλῷ têi khēlôi |
τοῖν χηλοῖν toîn khēloîn |
ταῖς χηλοῖς taîs khēloîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν χηλόν tḕn khēlón |
τὼ χηλώ tṑ khēlṓ |
τᾱ̀ς χηλούς tā̀s khēloús | ||||||||||
Vocative | χηλέ khēlé |
χηλώ khēlṓ |
χηλοί khēloí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- χήλινος (khḗlinos)
Descendants
edit- Classical Syriac: ܟܘܝܠܐ
References
edit- “χηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χηλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χηλός 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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