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# [[Gello]] {{gloss|a kind of [[vampiress]], [[demoness]], or [[goblin]] supposed to carry off young [[child]]ren and cause [[infertility]]}} |
# [[Gello]] {{gloss|a kind of [[vampiress]], [[demoness]], or [[goblin]] supposed to carry off young [[child]]ren and cause [[infertility]]}} |
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#* {{Q|grc|Sapph.||47|quote='''Γέλλως''' παιδοφιλωτέρα·}} |
#* {{Q|grc|Sapph.||47|quote='''Γέλλως''' παιδοφιλωτέρα·|trans=(She) more child-loving than '''Gello'''.}} |
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#* {{Q|grc|Erinn.|SHell.|401|41}} |
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#* {{Q|grc||Cyran.|2|31|21}} |
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#** {{Q|grc||Cyran.|2|40|37|quote=τὴν '''Γελλὼ''' τὴν πνίγουσαν τὰ βρέφη καὶ τὰς λεχοὺς ἐνοχλοῦσαν}} |
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#* {{Q|grc|Zen.||3|3}} |
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#* {{Q|grc|Hsch.||quote=<'''Γελλώ'''>· εἴδωλον Ἐμπούσης τὸ τῶν ἀώρων, τῶν παρθένων<br/><'''Γελλώ'''> δαίμων, ἣν γυναῖκες τὰ νεογνὰ παιδία φασὶν ἁρπάζειν}} |
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#* {{Q|grc|Sud.||quote='''Γελλοῦς''' παιδοφιλωτέρα: αὕτη ἄωρος ἐτελεύτησε, καὶ τὸ φάντασμα αὐτῆς ἐδόκουν ἐπὶ τὰ παιδία καὶ τοὺς ἀώρους θανάτους ἰέναι.|trans=(She) more child-loving than '''Gello''': She died unseasonably, and they imagined that her ghost went to children and to those [who had suffered] unseasonable deaths.}} |
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* {{l|grc|Λᾰ́μῐᾰ}} |
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Revision as of 22:32, 1 May 2015
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Perhaps from the the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Akkadian [script needed] (ga-al-lu-ú, gallû), [script needed] (ḪUL, gallû), [script needed] (GAL5.LÁ, gallû, “Gallu”),[1][2] a word from the Assyro-Babylonian religion perhaps related to ghoul,[3] as a demonic revenant who brings sickness and death,[4] from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sumerian.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡel.lɔ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɡelˈlo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ʝelˈlo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ʝelˈlo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ʝeˈlo/
Proper noun
Γελλώ • (Gellṓ) f (genitive Γελλοῦς); third declension
- Gello (a kind of vampiress, demoness, or goblin supposed to carry off young children and cause infertility)
- 3rd century BCE, Erinna, SHell. 401.41
- Cyranides 2.31.21
- Cyranides 2.40.37:
- τὴν Γελλὼ τὴν πνίγουσαν τὰ βρέφη καὶ τὰς λεχοὺς ἐνοχλοῦσαν
- tḕn Gellṑ tḕn pnígousan tà bréphē kaì tàs lekhoùs enokhloûsan
- τὴν Γελλὼ τὴν πνίγουσαν τὰ βρέφη καὶ τὰς λεχοὺς ἐνοχλοῦσαν
- 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον :
- <Γελλώ>· εἴδωλον Ἐμπούσης τὸ τῶν ἀώρων, τῶν παρθένων
<Γελλώ> δαίμων, ἣν γυναῖκες τὰ νεογνὰ παιδία φασὶν ἁρπάζειν- <Γελλώ>; eídōlon Empoúsēs tò tôn aṓrōn, tôn parthénōn
<Γελλώ> daímōn, hḕn gunaîkes tà neognà paidía phasìn harpázein
- <Γελλώ>; eídōlon Empoúsēs tò tôn aṓrōn, tôn parthénōn
- <Γελλώ>· εἴδωλον Ἐμπούσης τὸ τῶν ἀώρων, τῶν παρθένων
- Sud. :
- Γελλοῦς παιδοφιλωτέρα: αὕτη ἄωρος ἐτελεύτησε, καὶ τὸ φάντασμα αὐτῆς ἐδόκουν ἐπὶ τὰ παιδία καὶ τοὺς ἀώρους θανάτους ἰέναι.
- Gelloûs paidophilōtéra: haútē áōros eteleútēse, kaì tò phántasma autês edókoun epì tà paidía kaì toùs aṓrous thanátous iénai.
- (She) more child-loving than Gello: She died unseasonably, and they imagined that her ghost went to children and to those [who had suffered] unseasonable deaths.
- Γελλοῦς παιδοφιλωτέρα: αὕτη ἄωρος ἐτελεύτησε, καὶ τὸ φάντασμα αὐτῆς ἐδόκουν ἐπὶ τὰ παιδία καὶ τοὺς ἀώρους θανάτους ἰέναι.
Declension
See also
- Λᾰ́μῐᾰ (Lámia)
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “gallû”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011, pages 18-19
- ^ Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Harvard University Press, 1992), 82-87.
- ^ A.A. Barb, "Antaura. The Mermaid and the Devil's Grandmother: A Lecture," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 29 (1966), p. 5.
- ^ M.L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, reprinted 2003), 58-59 and 111.
On gallû, see also W.H.Ph. Römer, "The Religion of Ancient Mesopotamia," in Historia Religionum: Religions of the Past (Brill, 1969), 182
- “Γελλώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Γελλώ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
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