ἀλλά

See also: αλλά, ἄλλα, and άλλα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀλλ’ (all’) — apocopic

Etymology

Originally the neuter accusative plural of ἄλλος (állos, “another, different”) with shifted accent in an adverbial sense, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (“other”). Cognates include Latin alius, Old Irish aile, Old Armenian այլ (ayl), and Old English elles (English else).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /al.lá/ → /alˈla/ → /aˈla/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /al.lá/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /alˈla/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /alˈla/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /alˈla/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈla/

Conjunction

ἀλλά • (allá)

1. but

Descendants

• Greek: αλλά (allá)
• Cappadocian Greek: αλά (alá)
• Tsakonian: αλλά (allá)
• → Coptic: ⲁⲗⲗⲁ (alla)
• → Laz: ალა (ala)

Further reading

• “ἀλλά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀλλά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀλλά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἀλλά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἀλλά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἀλλά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀλλά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G235 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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