μαλλός

See also: Μαλλός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The connection with Lithuanian mìlas (“coarse wool”) has been abandoned. Greppin suggests that Armenian մալ (mal, “cattle”) is cognate with the Greek word. The latter only denotes the "flock of wool" and never the animal, but this may be a later semantic development. An Indo-European form *mh₂l- is rather improbable, however. The word may well be Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mal.lós/ → /malˈlos/ → /maˈlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mal.lós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /malˈlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /malˈlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /malˈlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /maˈlos/

Noun

μαλλός • (mallós) m (genitive μαλλοῦ); second declension

1. flock of wool
2. tress, braid of hair

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μαλλός; τοῦ μαλλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μαλλός ho mallós	τὼ μαλλώ tṑ mallṓ	οἱ μαλλοί hoi malloí
Genitive	τοῦ μαλλοῦ toû malloû	τοῖν μαλλοῖν toîn malloîn	τῶν μαλλῶν tôn mallôn
Dative	τῷ μαλλῷ tôi mallôi	τοῖν μαλλοῖν toîn malloîn	τοῖς μαλλοῖς toîs malloîs
Accusative	τὸν μαλλόν tòn mallón	τὼ μαλλώ tṑ mallṓ	τοὺς μαλλούς toùs malloús
Vocative	μαλλέ mallé	μαλλώ mallṓ	μαλλοί malloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δασύμαλλος (dasúmallos)
• μαλλόδετος (mallódetos)
• μαλλοειδής (malloeidḗs)
• μάλλυκες (mállukes)
• μάλλωσις (mállōsis)
• μαλλωτάριον (mallōtárion)
• μαλλωτός (mallōtós)
• πηγεσίμαλλος (pēgesímallos)

 

Further reading

• “μαλλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μαλλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μαλλός 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