γάλας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. According to Belardi, the word is from the Mediterranean substrate; compare Italian galestro (“marl”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡá.las/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡa.las/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣa.las/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣa.las/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣa.las/
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Noun
γάλας • (gálas)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: γῆ (gê, “earth”).
Further reading
- γάλας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γάλας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2021)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) , “γάλας”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256
- Hesychius' Lexicon: γ