ἅλυσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Originally "winding", derived from *ϝάλυτις (*wálutis), itself from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind”). Further related to εἰλέω (eiléō, “to turn, roll”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /há.ly.sis/ → /ˈa.ly.sis/ → /ˈa.li.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /há.ly.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)a.ly.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ly.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ly.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.sis/

Noun

ἅλῠσῐς • (hálusis) f (genitive ἁλῠ́σεως); third declension

1. chain
2. link in chain mail

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἅλῠσῐς; τῆς ἁλῠ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἅλῠσῐς hē hálusis	τὼ ἁλῠ́σει tṑ halúsei	αἱ ἁλῠ́σεις hai halúseis
Genitive	τῆς ἁλῠ́σεως tês halúseōs	τοῖν ἁλῠσέοιν toîn haluséoin	τῶν ἁλῠ́σεων tôn halúseōn
Dative	τῇ ἁλῠ́σει têi halúsei	τοῖν ἁλῠσέοιν toîn haluséoin	ταῖς ἁλῠ́σεσῐ / ἁλῠ́σεσῐν taîs halúsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἅλῠσῐν tḕn hálusin	τὼ ἁλῠ́σει tṑ halúsei	τᾱ̀ς ἁλῠ́σεις tā̀s halúseis
Vocative	ἅλῠσῐ hálusi	ἁλῠ́σει halúsei	ἁλῠ́σεις halúseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἁλυσηδόν (halusēdón)
• ἁλυσίδιον (halusídion)
• ἁλυσιδωτός (halusidōtós)
• ἁλύσιον (halúsion)
• μονάλυσις (monálusis)

 

Descendants

• Coptic: ϩⲁⲗⲩⲥⲓⲥ (halusis)
• Greek: αλυσίδα (alysída)
  • → Romanian: alesidă

References

• “ἅλυσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἅλυσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἅλυσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἅλυσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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