ἰλύς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formation like ἀχλύς (akhlús) and δελφύς (delphús). Identical with Proto-Slavic *jьlъ (“silt, clay”) and Latvian īls (“very dark”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /iː.ly̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iˈlys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈlys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈlys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈlis/
Noun
ἰ̄λῡ́ς • (īlū́s) f (genitive ἰ̄λῠ́ος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ῑ̓λῡ́ς hē īlū́s |
τὼ ῑ̓λῠ́ε tṑ īlŭ́e |
αἱ ῑ̓λῠ́ες hai īlŭ́es | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ῑ̓λῠ́ος tês īlŭ́os |
τοῖν ῑ̓λῠ́οιν toîn īlŭ́oin |
τῶν ῑ̓λῠ́ων tôn īlŭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ῑ̓λῠ́ῐ̈ tēî īlŭ́ĭ̈ |
τοῖν ῑ̓λῠ́οιν toîn īlŭ́oin |
ταῖς ῑ̓λῠ́σῐ / ῑ̓λῠ́σῐν taîs īlŭ́sĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ῑ̓λῡ́ν tḕn īlū́n |
τὼ ῑ̓λῠ́ε tṑ īlŭ́e |
τᾱ̀ς ῑ̓λῦς / ῑ̓λῠ́ᾰς tā̀s īlûs / īlŭ́ăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῑ̓λῡ́ īlū́ |
ῑ̓λῠ́ε īlŭ́e |
ῑ̓λῠ́ες īlŭ́es | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἴλυμα (íluma)
- ἰλυόεις (iluóeis)
- ἰλύω (ilúō)
- ἰλυώδης (iluṓdēs)
Further reading
- “ἰλύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰλύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἰλύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἰλύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἰλύς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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