οὖλον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The etymology is uncertain. Maybe from the same root of εἰλέω (eiléō, “to press together”) or from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, round”), like ἐλύω (elúō, “to roll around”), εἰλύω (eilúō, “to enfold”), εἴλω (eílō, “to roll up, pack close”), ἑλίσσω (helíssō, “to turn round, to roll”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ôː.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈu.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈu.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈu.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈu.lon/
Noun
οὖλον • (oûlon) n (genitive οὔλου); second declension
- (anatomy) gum (flesh around the teeth)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ οὖλον; τοῦ οὔλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ οὖλον tò oûlon | τὼ οὔλω tṑ oúlō | τᾰ̀ οὖλᾰ tà oûla | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ οὔλου toû oúlou | τοῖν οὔλοιν toîn oúloin | τῶν οὔλων tôn oúlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ οὔλῳ tôi oúlōi | τοῖν οὔλοιν toîn oúloin | τοῖς οὔλοις toîs oúlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ οὖλον tò oûlon | τὼ οὔλω tṑ oúlō | τᾰ̀ οὖλᾰ tà oûla | ||||||||||
Vocative | οὖλον oûlon | οὔλω oúlō | οὖλᾰ oûla | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ούλο (oúlo)
Further reading
- οὖλον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- οὖλον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- οὖλον 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