ἀχλύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵʰlu- (“mist, dark weather”). Cognate with Albanian agull (“bad vision”) and Old Prussian aglo (“rain”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.kʰlýs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈkʰlys/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈxlys/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈxlys/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈxlis/

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Noun

ἀχλύς • (akhlús) f (genitive ἀχλύος); third declension

mist
darkness, dimness

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἀχλῠ́ς; τῆς ἀχλῠός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀχλῠ́ς hē akhlús	τὼ ἀχλῠ́ε tṑ akhlúe	αἱ ἀχλῠ́ες hai akhlúes
Genitive	τῆς ἀχλῠός tês akhluós	τοῖν ἀχλῠοῖν toîn akhluoîn	τῶν ἀχλῠῶν tôn akhluôn
Dative	τῇ ἀχλῠῐ̈́ têi akhluḯ	τοῖν ἀχλῠοῖν toîn akhluoîn	ταῖς ἀχλῠσῐ́ / ἀχλῠσῐ́ν taîs akhlusí(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀχλῠ́ν tḕn akhlún	τὼ ἀχλῠ́ε tṑ akhlúe	τᾱ̀ς ἀχλῦς / ἀχλῠ́ᾰς tā̀s akhlûs / akhlúas
Vocative	ἀχλῠ́ akhlú	ἀχλῠ́ε akhlúe	ἀχλῠ́ες akhlúes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀχλυόεις (akhluóeis)
ἀχλυόω (akhluóō)
ἄχλυσις (ákhlusis)
ἀχλυώδης (akhluṓdēs)

References

ἀχλύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἀχλύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀχλύς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
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