γυλιός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

γύλιος (gúlios)

Etymology

Unknown. It has been compared with Old Norse kýll (“bag for victuals”) and Old High German kiulla (“bag”). Maybe related to γύαλον (gúalon, “hollow of a cuirass”). According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”).[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡy.li.ós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɡy.liˈos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ʝy.liˈos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ʝy.liˈos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ʝi.liˈos/

Noun

γῠλῐός • (guliós) m (genitive γῠλῐοῦ); second declension

knapsack, haversack
hedgehog
Synonym: χήρ (khḗr)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ γῠλῐός; τοῦ γῠλῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ γῠλῐός ho guliós	τὼ γῠλῐώ tṑ guliṓ	οἱ γῠλῐοί hoi gulioí
Genitive	τοῦ γῠλῐοῦ toû gulioû	τοῖν γῠλῐοῖν toîn gulioîn	τῶν γῠλῐῶν tôn guliôn
Dative	τῷ γῠλῐῷ tôi guliôi	τοῖν γῠλῐοῖν toîn gulioîn	τοῖς γῠλῐοῖς toîs gulioîs
Accusative	τὸν γῠλῐόν tòn gulión	τὼ γῠλῐώ tṑ guliṓ	τοὺς γῠλῐούς toùs gulioús
Vocative	γῠλῐέ gulié	γῠλῐώ guliṓ	γῠλῐοί gulioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

γυλίσκος (gulískos)
γυλλιον (gullion)

Descendants

Greek: γυλιός (gyliós)

References

“γυλιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
γυλιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
γυλιός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
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

Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 393-98

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γυλιός (guliós).

Noun

γυλιός • (gyliós) m (plural γυλιοί)

(military) haversack, shoulder bag

Declension

declension of γυλιός

case \\ number	singular	plural
nominative	γυλιός •	γυλιοί •
genitive	γυλιού •	γυλιών •
accusative	γυλιό •	γυλιούς •
vocative	γυλιέ •	γυλιοί •

Synonyms

ταγάρι n (tagári) (civilian)
σακίδιο n (sakídio) (civilian)

[1] Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 393-98