γαυλός

See also: γαῦλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A connection with γύαλον (gúalon), γωλεός (gōleós), Old Norse kjóll (“ship”) has been considered. But this word can be considered, as γαῦλος (gaûlos) denoting a Phoenician merchant-ship, as being via Phoenician or a near language from Akkadian 𒄖𒌌𒇻 (gullu, “a container”), 𒄖𒌌𒆷𒌅 (gullatu, “ewer”), a vinicultural word of unascertainable non-Semitic origin, being via its variant 𒄣𒇷𒌋 (qulliu, “a bowl”) the source of Biblical Hebrew גֻלָּה‎ (gullāh), Ugaritic 𐎂𐎍 (gl), Aramaic קוּלְתָא‎ (qulləṯā), Arabic قُلَّة‎ (qulla), جُلَّة‎ (julla), Classical Syriac ܩܽܘܠܬܳܐ‎ (qulləṯā), which passed into Latin culullus (“wine jug”) and into Ancient Greek κόλλαθον (kóllathon, “a unit of liquid measure used in Syria”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡau̯.lós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɡawˈlos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɣaˈβlos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ɣaˈvlos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ɣaˈvlos/

Noun

γαυλός • (gaulós) m (genitive γαυλοῦ); second declension

milk pail
water bucket
any round vessel, beehive

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ γαυλός; τοῦ γαυλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ γαυλός ho gaulós	τὼ γαυλώ tṑ gaulṓ	οἱ γαυλοί hoi gauloí
Genitive	τοῦ γαυλοῦ toû gauloû	τοῖν γαυλοῖν toîn gauloîn	τῶν γαυλῶν tôn gaulôn
Dative	τῷ γαυλῷ tôi gaulôi	τοῖν γαυλοῖν toîn gauloîn	τοῖς γαυλοῖς toîs gauloîs
Accusative	τὸν γαυλόν tòn gaulón	τὼ γαυλώ tṑ gaulṓ	τοὺς γαυλούς toùs gauloús
Vocative	γαυλέ gaulé	γαυλώ gaulṓ	γαυλοί gauloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Latin: gaulus

References

γαυλός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
γαυλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
γαυλός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
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