γυλιός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

γύλιος (gúlios)

Etymology

Unknown. It has been compared with Old Norse kýll (“bag for victuals”) and Old High German kiulla (“bag”). Maybe related to γύαλον (gúalon, “hollow of a cuirass”). According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡy.li.ós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɡy.liˈos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ʝy.liˈos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ʝy.liˈos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ʝi.liˈos/

Noun

γῠλῐός • (gŭlĭós) m (genitive γῠλῐοῦ); second declension

knapsack, haversack
hedgehog
Synonym: χήρ (khḗr)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ γῠλῐός; τοῦ γῠλῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ γῠλῐός ho gŭlĭós	τὼ γῠλῐώ tṑ gŭlĭṓ	οἱ γῠλῐοί hoi gŭlĭoí
Genitive	τοῦ γῠλῐοῦ toû gŭlĭoû	τοῖν γῠλῐοῖν toîn gŭlĭoîn	τῶν γῠλῐῶν tôn gŭlĭôn
Dative	τῷ γῠλῐῷ tōî gŭlĭōî	τοῖν γῠλῐοῖν toîn gŭlĭoîn	τοῖς γῠλῐοῖς toîs gŭlĭoîs
Accusative	τὸν γῠλῐόν tòn gŭlĭón	τὼ γῠλῐώ tṑ gŭlĭṓ	τοὺς γῠλῐούς toùs gŭlĭoús
Vocative	γῠλῐέ gŭlĭé	γῠλῐώ gŭlĭṓ	γῠλῐοί gŭlĭoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

γυλίσκος (gulískos)
γυλλιον (gullion)

Descendants

Greek: γυλιός (gyliós)

References

“γυλιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
γυλιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
γυλιός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
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

^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “393-98”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 393-98

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γυλιός (guliós).

Noun

γυλιός • (gyliós) m (plural γυλιοί)

(military) haversack, shoulder bag

Declension

Declension of **γυλιός**
	singular	plural
nominative	γυλιός (gyliós)	γυλιοί (gylioí)
genitive	γυλιού (gylioú)	γυλιών (gylión)
accusative	γυλιό (gylió)	γυλιούς (gylioús)
vocative	γυλιέ (gylié)	γυλιοί (gylioí)

Synonyms

ταγάρι n (tagári) (civilian)
σακίδιο n (sakídio) (civilian)

[1] Pokorny, Julius (1959) “393-98”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 393-98

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