χάλις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelis; cognate with Sanskrit हाला (hālā, “brandy”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰá.lis/ → /ˈxa.lis/ → /ˈxa.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰá.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰa.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.lis/

Noun

χᾰ́λῐς • (khális) m (genitive χᾰ́λῐος); third declension

1. pure, unmixed wine

References

• “χάλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χάλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χάλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette