ὕαλος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὕελος (húelos)
Etymology
According to Furnée, a Pre-Greek word, due to the variation "α/ε". According to Beekes, there is a similarity with Proto-Germanic *glasą (“glass”) and Latin sualiternicum (“a kind of reddish amber”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hý.a.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)y.a.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.a.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.a.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.a.los/
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Noun
ὕαλος • (húalos) f (genitive ὑάλου); second declension
- some kind of crystalline stone
- convex lens of crystal, used as a burning glass
- glass
Declension
Second declension of ἡ ὕαλος; τῆς ὑάλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὕαλος hē húalos | τὼ ὑάλω tṑ huálō | αἱ ὕαλοι hai húaloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὑάλου tês huálou | τοῖν ὑάλοιν toîn huáloin | τῶν ὑάλων tôn huálōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὑάλῳ têi huálōi | τοῖν ὑάλοιν toîn huáloin | ταῖς ὑάλοις taîs huálois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὕαλον tḕn húalon | τὼ ὑάλω tṑ huálō | τᾱ̀ς ὑάλους tā̀s huálous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὕαλε húale | ὑάλω huálō | ὕαλοι húaloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Derived terms
- ὑαλᾶς (hualâs)
- ὑάλεος (huáleos)
- ὑάλη (huálē)
- ὑαλιεύς (hualieús)
- ὑαλίζω (hualízō)
- ὑαλικός (hualikós)
- ὑάλινος (huálinos)
- ὑάλιος (huálios)
- ὑαλῖτις (hualîtis)
- ὑαλοειδής (hualoeidḗs)
- ὑαλόεις (hualóeis)
- ὑαλουργεῖον (hualourgeîon)
- ὑαλουργικός (hualourgikós)
- ὑαλουργός (hualourgós)
- ὑαλοῦς (hualoûs)
- ὑαλόχρους (hualókhrous)
- ὑαλοψός (hualopsós)
- ὑαλώδης (hualṓdēs)
- ὑάλωμα (huálōma)
- ὑαλῶπις (hualôpis)
- ὑελέψης (huelépsēs)
- ὑελιάριος (hueliários)
- ὑέλιον (huélion)
- ὑελοψικός (huelopsikós)
Descendants
- Latin: hyalus
Further reading
- ὕαλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὕαλος 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