Πέλλα

See also: πέλλα

Ancient Greek

Presumably from an earlier *πέλσα from Proto-Indo-European *pels- (“stone”). Cognates include Irish aill (“boulder, cliff”), Pashto پرښه (parša, “rock, rocky ledge”)^[1], Sanskrit पाषाण m (pāṣāṇa) / पाषी f (pāṣī, “stone”),^[2] Proto-Germanic *falisaz, English fell (“rocky ridge”), Old Norse fell / fjall (“mountain”), German Fels (“rock, cliff”)^[3]

Πέλλᾰ • (Péllă) f (genitive Πέλλης); first declension

First declension of ἡ Πέλλᾰ; τῆς Πέλλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Πέλλᾰ hē Péllă
Genitive	τῆς Πέλλης tês Péllēs
Dative	τῇ Πέλλῃ tēî Péllēi
Accusative	τὴν Πέλλᾰν tḕn Péllăn
Vocative	Πέλλᾰ Péllă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020