οὐλαί

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὀλαί (olaí) – Attic

Etymology

The comparison with ἔλυμος (élumos, “millet”) and ὄλυρα (ólura, “spelt”) is hypothetical. In view of the gloss ὄλπα (ólpa), which Furnée connects with ὄλβος (ólbos, “happiness, bliss”) under an original meaning "nourishment, corn, grain", it is probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /oː.lǎi̯/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /uˈlɛ/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /uˈlɛ/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /uˈle/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /uˈle/

Proper noun

οὐλαί • (oulaí) f pl (genitive οὐλῶν); first declension

barley-corns, which were sprinkled on the head of the sacrificial victim

Inflection

First declension of αἱ οὐλαί; τῶν οὐλῶν (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	αἱ οὐλαί hai oulaí
Genitive	τῶν οὐλῶν tôn oulôn
Dative	ταῖς οὐλαῖς taîs oulaîs
Accusative	τᾱ̀ς οὐλᾱ́ς tā̀s oulā́s
Vocative	οὐλαί oulaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

οὐλοχοεῖον (oulokhoeîon)
οὐλοχύται (oulokhútai)

References

οὐλαί in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
οὐλαί in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
οὐλαί in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
οὐλαί in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
οὐλαί 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