ἄελλα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Possibly from *ἄϝελ-ι̯α (*áwel-i̯a), related to Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-. Cognates include Welsh awel.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.el.la/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.el.la/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.el.la/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.el.la/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.e.la/
Noun
ἄελλᾰ • (áella) f (genitive ἀέλλης); first declension
- stormwind, whirlwind
- (figurative) anything in whirling motion
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἄελλᾰ hē áella |
τὼ ἀέλλᾱ tṑ aéllā |
αἱ ἄελλαι hai áellai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀέλλης tês aéllēs |
τοῖν ἀέλλαιν toîn aéllain |
τῶν ἀελλῶν tôn aellôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀέλλῃ têi aéllēi |
τοῖν ἀέλλαιν toîn aéllain |
ταῖς ἀέλλαις taîs aéllais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἄελλᾰν tḕn áellan |
τὼ ἀέλλᾱ tṑ aéllā |
τᾱ̀ς ἀέλλᾱς tā̀s aéllās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄελλᾰ áella |
ἀέλλᾱ aéllā |
ἄελλαι áellai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- θύελλα (thúella)
Related terms
- ἄημι (áēmi)
Further reading
- “ἄελλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄελλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄελλα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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