οὐλή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From an archaic form *ϝουλή (woulē), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“to hit”). Closest cognates are Latin vulnus (“wound”) and Irish fuil (“blood”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /uː.lɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /uˈle̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /uˈli/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /uˈli/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /uˈli/
Noun
οὐλή • (oulḗ) f (genitive οὐλῆς); first declension
- scar, wound scarred over
Declension
First declension of ἡ οὐλή; τῆς οὐλῆς (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ οὐλή hē oulḗ | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς οὐλῆς tês oulês | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ οὐλῇ têi oulêi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν οὐλήν tḕn oulḗn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | οὐλή oulḗ | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- οὐλόομαι (oulóomai)
- ούλοπρόσωπος (oúloprósōpos)
- οὔλωμα (oúlōma)
- οὔλωσις (oúlōsis)
Further reading
- “οὐλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὐλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οὐλή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οὐλή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- οὐλή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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