παλαιός

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Ancient Greek[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From πάλαι (pálai, long ago). Likely cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀨𐀍 (pa-ra-jo), which has been argued to mean “old”; this connection points to a Proto-Hellenic *palai(y)ós and casts doubt on the popularly proposed etymology from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-.[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Adjective[edit]

πᾰλαιός (palaiósm (feminine πᾰλαιᾱ́, neuter πᾰλαιόν); first/second declension

  1. old, aged
    Synonym: γεραιός (geraiós)
  2. ancient, of times past
    Synonym: ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos)
  3. time-honoured, venerable
  4. antiquated, outdated

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Descendants[edit]

  • Greek: παλιός (paliós)
  • English: paleo-, palaeo-
  • Irish: pailé-
  • German: paläo-
  • French: paléo-

Further reading[edit]

  1. ^ John Chadwick; Lydia Baumbach (1963), “The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary”, in Glotta : Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache, volume 41, issue 3/4, Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (GmbH & Co. KG), →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 232 of 157–271: “πάλαι”
  2. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “πάλαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1144–1145

Greek[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Adjective[edit]

παλαιός (palaiósm (feminine παλαιά, neuter παλαιό)

  1. long established, old, former, not modern, worn out

Usage notes[edit]

  • In general, for positive forms, παλιός is more common than παλαιός, however with the degrees of comparison forms inflected from παλαιότερος and παλαιότατος are more frequent than those from παλιότερος and παλιότατος.

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