τολύπη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maurice connects τυλυφάντης (tuluphántēs, “cushion-cover weaver”), assuming influence of κορύνη (korúnē) or τορύνη (torúnē) to account for the vocalism. Furnée compares Luwian [script needed] (taluppi, “clumpd of dough”). More recently, Melchert suggested a connection with Hittite [script needed] (tarupp, “to gather, collect”), with the rare variant [script needed] (talupp). According to Beekes, the word must belong to the Pre-Greek substrate, which must have spoken in large parts of Anatolia as well.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /to.lý.pɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /toˈly.pe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /toˈly.pi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /toˈly.pi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /toˈli.pi/
Noun
τολῠ́πη • (tolúpē) f (genitive τολῠ́πης); first declension
- clew, ball of wool ready for spinning
- Synonym: ἀγᾰθῐ́ς (agathís)
- ball of anything
- globular cake
- colocynth (Citrullus colocynthis)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ τολῠ́πη; τῆς τολῠ́πης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ τολῠ́πη hē tolúpē | τὼ τολῠ́πᾱ tṑ tolúpā | αἱ τολῠ́παι hai tolúpai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς τολῠ́πης tês tolúpēs | τοῖν τολῠ́παιν toîn tolúpain | τῶν τολῠπῶν tôn tolupôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ τολῠ́πῃ têi tolúpēi | τοῖν τολῠ́παιν toîn tolúpain | ταῖς τολῠ́παις taîs tolúpais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν τολῠ́πην tḕn tolúpēn | τὼ τολῠ́πᾱ tṑ tolúpā | τᾱ̀ς τολῠ́πᾱς tā̀s tolúpās | ||||||||||
Vocative | τολῠ́πη tolúpē | τολῠ́πᾱ tolúpā | τολῠ́παι tolúpai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τολύπευμα (tolúpeuma)
- τολυπευτικός (tolupeutikós)
- τολυπεύω (tolupeúō)
References
- “τολύπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τολύπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τολύπη 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