γύαλον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
For the formation, one might compare ἀγκάλη (ankálē) and ὀμφαλός (omphalós). The word is mostly connected with γυῖον (guîon, “hand”) and γύης (gúēs, “earth”), so it may derive either from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“hand”) or from Proto-Indo-European *gu(H)- (“to bend”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡý.a.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡy.a.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈʝy.a.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈʝy.a.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈʝi.a.lon/
Noun
γῠ́ᾰλον • (gúalon) n (genitive γῠᾰ́λου); second declension
- hollow of the cuirass
- hollow of a vessel
- hollow of a rock, cave
- (in the plural) vales, dells
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ γῠ́ᾰλον; τοῦ γῠᾰ́λου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ γῠ́ᾰλον tò gúalon | τὼ γῠᾰ́λω tṑ guálō | τᾰ̀ γῠ́ᾰλᾰ tà gúala | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ γῠᾰ́λου toû guálou | τοῖν γῠᾰ́λοιν toîn guáloin | τῶν γῠᾰ́λων tôn guálōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ γῠᾰ́λῳ tôi guálōi | τοῖν γῠᾰ́λοιν toîn guáloin | τοῖς γῠᾰ́λοις toîs guálois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ γῠ́ᾰλον tò gúalon | τὼ γῠᾰ́λω tṑ guálō | τᾰ̀ γῠ́ᾰλᾰ tà gúala | ||||||||||
Vocative | γῠ́ᾰλον gúalon | γῠᾰ́λω guálō | γῠ́ᾰλᾰ gúala | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- γυάλας (guálas)
- γυαλοθώραξ (gualothṓrax)
- γύαλος (gúalos)
Further reading
- “γύαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γύαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “γύαλον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- γύαλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γύαλον 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