μέλι
See also: μέλη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *méli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (“honey”). Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀕𐀪 (me-ri), Latin mel, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), and Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.li/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.li/
Noun
μέλῐ • (mélĭ) n (genitive μέλῐτος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ μέλῐ tò mélĭ |
τὼ μέλῐτε tṑ mélĭte |
τᾰ̀ μέλῐτᾰ tằ mélĭtă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μέλῐτος toû mélĭtos |
τοῖν μελῐ́τοιν toîn melĭ́toin |
τῶν μελῐ́των tôn melĭ́tōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μέλῐτῐ / μέλῐ tōî mélĭtĭ / mélĭ |
τοῖν μελῐ́τοιν toîn melĭ́toin |
τοῖς μέλῐσῐ / μέλῐσῐν toîs mélĭsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ μέλῐ tò mélĭ |
τὼ μέλῐτε tṑ mélĭte |
τᾰ̀ μέλῐτᾰ tằ mélĭtă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μέλῐ mélĭ |
μέλῐτε mélĭte |
μέλῐτᾰ mélĭtă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θᾰλᾰσσόμελῐ (thălăssómelĭ)
- μελῐ́γλωσσος (melĭ́glōssos)
- μελῐ́κρᾱτον (melĭ́krāton)
- μελίμηλον (melímēlon)
- μελῐ́πτορθος (melĭ́ptorthos)
- μέλισσᾰ (mélissă)
- Μελίτη (Melítē)
- μελίτινος (melítinos)
- μελίφρων (melíphrōn)
- ὑδρόμελι (hudrómeli)
Descendants
- Greek: μέλι (méli)
- Mariupol Greek: мел (mjel)
- → Hawaiian: meli[2]
- → Rarotongan: meri[2]
- → Tahitian: meri[2]
- → Tongan: melie[2]
- → Samoan: meli[2]
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μέλι, -ιτος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 925-6
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Gambier, Yves, Stecconi, Ubaldo (2019) A World Atlas of Translation, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 32-3
Further reading
- “μέλι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μέλι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μέλι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μέλι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μέλι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μέλι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3192 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- μέλι, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid.
Compare Mariupol Greek мел (mjel).
Pronunciation
Noun
μέλι • (méli) n (plural μέλια)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | μέλι (méli) | μέλια (mélia) |
| genitive | μελιού (melioú) | - |
| accusative | μέλι (méli) | μέλια (mélia) |
| vocative | μέλι (méli) | μέλια (mélia) |
Coordinate terms
Related terms
Further reading
- μέλι on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
- μέλι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language