ἀλλά
See also: αλλά, ἄλλα, and άλλα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀλλ’ (all’) – apocopic
Etymology
Originally the neuter accusative plural of ἄλλος (állos) with shifted accent in an adverbial sense, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos. Cognates include Latin alius, Old Irish aile, Old Armenian այլ (ayl), and Old English elles (English else).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /al.lá/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /alˈla/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /alˈla/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /alˈla/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈla/
Conjunction
ἀλλά • (allá)
- but
Descendants
- Greek: αλλά (allá)
- Cappadocian Greek: αλά (alá)
- Tsakonian: αλλά (allá)
- → Coptic: ⲁⲗⲗⲁ (alla)
- → Laz: ალა (ala)
Further reading
- “ἀλλά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀλλά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀλλά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀλλά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀλλά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀλλά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “ἀλλά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G235 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- anyhow idem, page 33.
- assuredly idem, page 48.
- but idem, page 107.
- certainly idem, page 122.
- least idem, page 483.
- rate idem, page 673.