ὀμίχλη

See also: ομίχλη and ὁμίχλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὁμίχλη (homíkhlē) — Attic, with secondary aspiration

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *omíkʰlā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰleh₂.

Cognate with Lithuanian miglà (“mist, haze”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud, gloomy weather”), Old Armenian մէգ (mēg, “mist”) and Albanian mjegull (“fog; haze”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.mí.kʰlɛː/ → /oˈmi.xli/ → /oˈmi.xli/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.mí.kʰlɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈmi.kʰle̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈmi.xli/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈmi.xli/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈmi.xli/

Noun

ὀμῐ́χλη • (omíkhlē) f (genitive ὀμῐ́χλης); first declension

1. mist, fog

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὀμῐ́χλη; τῆς ὀμῐ́χλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀμῐ́χλη hē omíkhlē	τὼ ὀμῐ́χλᾱ tṑ omíkhlā	αἱ ὀμῐ́χλαι hai omíkhlai
Genitive	τῆς ὀμῐ́χλης tês omíkhlēs	τοῖν ὀμῐ́χλαιν toîn omíkhlain	τῶν ὀμῐχλῶν tôn omikhlôn
Dative	τῇ ὀμῐ́χλῃ têi omíkhlēi	τοῖν ὀμῐ́χλαιν toîn omíkhlain	ταῖς ὀμῐ́χλαις taîs omíkhlais
Accusative	τὴν ὀμῐ́χλην tḕn omíkhlēn	τὼ ὀμῐ́χλᾱ tṑ omíkhlā	τᾱ̀ς ὀμῐ́χλᾱς tā̀s omíkhlās
Vocative	ὀμῐ́χλη omíkhlē	ὀμῐ́χλᾱ omíkhlā	ὀμῐ́χλαι omíkhlai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ομίχλη (omíchli)

References

• “ὀμίχλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀμίχλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὀμίχλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὀμίχλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὀμίχλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cloud idem, page 139.
  • fog idem, page 331.
  • haze idem, page 389.
  • mist idem, page 535.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1077