ὗλις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὕλις (húlis)

Etymology

Unknown. Frisk suggests that this word might have arisen from ἰλύς (ilús, “mud, slime”), by way of contamination with ὑλίζω (hulízō, “to filter, strain”). However, this solution does not inspire much confidence.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hŷː.lis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.lis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.lis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.lis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.lis/

Noun

ὗλῐς • (hûlis) f (genitive ὕ̄λεως); third declension

mud, slime
Synonym: ἰλύς (ilús)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὗλῐς; τῆς ῡ̔́λεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὗλῐς hē hûlis	τὼ ῡ̔́λει tṑ hū́lei	αἱ ῡ̔́λεις hai hū́leis
Genitive	τῆς ῡ̔́λεως tês hū́leōs	τοῖν ῡ̔λέοιν toîn hūléoin	τῶν ῡ̔́λεων tôn hū́leōn
Dative	τῇ ῡ̔́λει têi hū́lei	ῡ̔λέοιν hūléoin	ταῖς ῡ̔́λεσῐ / ῡ̔́λεσῐν taîs hū́lesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὗλῐν tḕn hûlin	ῡ̔́λει hū́lei	τᾱ̀ς ῡ̔́λεις tā̀s hū́leis
Vocative	ὗλῐ hûli	ῡ̔́λει hū́lei	ῡ̔́λεις hū́leis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

ὗλις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ὗλις 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