κιέλλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ciˈel.li/ → /ciˈe.li/

• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈel.li/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈel.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈe.li/

Noun

κιέλλη • (kiéllē)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: φέγγος (phéngos, “splendour, lustre”), αὐγή (augḗ, “radiance, beam”), φῶς (phôs, “light”), πάχνη (pákhnē, “rime, hoarfrost”), ὀμίχλη (omíkhlē, “mist, haze”).

Further reading

• “κιέλλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: κ