μαλλός
See also: Μαλλός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The connection with Lithuanian mìlas (“coarse wool”) has been abandoned. Greppin suggests that Armenian մալ (mal, “cattle”) is cognate with the Greek word. The latter only denotes the "flock of wool" and never the animal, but this may be a later semantic development. An Indo-European form *mh₂l- is rather improbable, however. The word may well be Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mal.lós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /malˈlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /malˈlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /malˈlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /maˈlos/
Noun
μαλλός • (mallós) m (genitive μαλλοῦ); second declension
- flock of wool
- tress, braid of hair
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μαλλός; τοῦ μαλλοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μαλλός ho mallós | τὼ μαλλώ tṑ mallṓ | οἱ μαλλοί hoi malloí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μαλλοῦ toû malloû | τοῖν μαλλοῖν toîn malloîn | τῶν μαλλῶν tôn mallôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μαλλῷ tôi mallôi | τοῖν μαλλοῖν toîn malloîn | τοῖς μαλλοῖς toîs malloîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μαλλόν tòn mallón | τὼ μαλλώ tṑ mallṓ | τοὺς μαλλούς toùs malloús | ||||||||||
Vocative | μαλλέ mallé | μαλλώ mallṓ | μαλλοί malloí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δασύμαλλος (dasúmallos)
- μαλλόδετος (mallódetos)
- μαλλοειδής (malloeidḗs)
- μάλλυκες (mállukes)
- μάλλωσις (mállōsis)
- μαλλωτάριον (mallōtárion)
- μαλλωτός (mallōtós)
- πηγεσίμαλλος (pēgesímallos)
References
- μαλλός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μαλλός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μαλλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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