κήλη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂u-l-eh₂ (“tumour”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *kyla (“rupture”) and Proto-Germanic *haulaz (“hernia”). However the Attic form is still unexplained.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛ̌ː.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈke̝.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈci.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈci.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.li/
Noun
κήλη • (kḗlē) f (genitive κήλης); first declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κήλη hē kḗlē |
τὼ κήλᾱ tṑ kḗlā |
αἱ κῆλαι hai kêlai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κήλης tês kḗlēs |
τοῖν κήλαιν toîn kḗlain |
τῶν κηλῶν tôn kēlôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κήλῃ têi kḗlēi |
τοῖν κήλαιν toîn kḗlain |
ταῖς κήλαις taîs kḗlais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κήλην tḕn kḗlēn |
τὼ κήλᾱ tṑ kḗlā |
τᾱ̀ς κήλᾱς tā̀s kḗlās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κήλη kḗlē |
κήλᾱ kḗlā |
κῆλαι kêlai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐντεροκήλη (enterokḗlē)
- κηλήτης (kēlḗtēs)
- κηλικός (kēlikós)
- κηλοτομία (kēlotomía)
- σαρκοκήλη (sarkokḗlē)
Descendants
- Greek: κήλη (kíli)
References
- “κήλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κήλη 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
Greek
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κήλη (kḗlē)
Noun
κήλη • (kíli) f (uncountable)
Declension
κήλη
case \ number | singular |
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nominative | κήλη • |
genitive | κήλης • |
accusative | κήλη • |
vocative | κήλη • |
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