ἄλιζα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Kretschmer compared Old High German erila (“alder”) and Proto-Slavic *olьxa (“alder”). Either from a common European substrate root or alternatively directly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éliseh₂, from *h₂élis-.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.liz.da/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.za/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.za/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.za/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.za/

Noun

ἄλιζα • (áliza)

Hesychius gives the definition as: λεύκη (leúkē, “white poplar”), as they say in Macedonia.

References

“ἄλιζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἄλιζα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄλιζα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 67–68
Hesychius' Lexicon: α