τηλία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σηλία (sēlía)

Etymology

A technical expression in -ία (-ía), like σχεδία (skhedía), κλισία (klisía) and ἑστία (hestía). In the sense of "hoop of a sieve", this word and σηλία (sēlía) are often connected with σήθω (sḗthō, “to sieve”), but the derivation is unclear. In the meaning "table, board", the connection with Latin tellus (“earth”) and Sanskrit तल (tala, “bottom, floor”) is given by Pokorny.

Beekes claims that this cannot be upheld as Greek would have a lengthened grade formation, and further that for such a technical word, Pre-Greek origin is likely. Beekes further claims that the variation τ/σ is typical for Pre-Greek words, and that this word must originate there.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tɛː.lí.aː/ → /tiˈli.a/ → /tiˈli.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tɛː.lí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /te̝ˈli.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tiˈli.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tiˈli.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈli.a/

Noun

τηλῐ́ᾱ • (tēlíā) f (genitive τηλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. board or table with a raised rim or edge
2. table or stage whereon cocks and quails where set to fight
3. chimney board, trapdoor
4. hoop of a sieve

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τηλῐ́ᾱ; τῆς τηλῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τηλῐ́ᾱ hē tēlíā	τὼ τηλῐ́ᾱ tṑ tēlíā	αἱ τηλῐ́αι hai tēlíai
Genitive	τῆς τηλῐ́ᾱς tês tēlíās	τοῖν τηλῐ́αιν toîn tēlíain	τῶν τηλῐῶν tôn tēliôn
Dative	τῇ τηλῐ́ᾳ têi tēlíāi	τοῖν τηλῐ́αιν toîn tēlíain	ταῖς τηλῐ́αις taîs tēlíais
Accusative	τὴν τηλῐ́ᾱν tḕn tēlíān	τὼ τηλῐ́ᾱ tṑ tēlíā	τᾱ̀ς τηλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s tēlíās
Vocative	τηλῐ́ᾱ tēlíā	τηλῐ́ᾱ tēlíā	τηλῐ́αι tēlíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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