ὕαλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὕελος (húelos)

Etymology

According to Furnée, a Pre-Greek word, due to the variation "α/ε". According to Beekes, there is a similarity with Proto-Germanic *glasą (“glass”) and the first two syllables of Latin sualiternicum (“a kind of reddish amber”); a relation with the Germanic term is difficult to reconcile, however, due to the Germanic term having an acceptable internal (non-borrowing) derivation.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.a.los/ → /ˈy.a.los/ → /ˈi.a.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.a.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.a.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.a.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.a.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.a.los/

Noun

ὕᾰλος • (húalos) f (genitive ὑάλου); second declension

1. some kind of crystalline stone
2. convex lens of crystal, used as a burning glass
3. glass

Declension

Second declension of ἡ ὕᾰλος; τῆς ὑᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὕᾰλος hē húalos	τὼ ὑᾰ́λω tṑ huálō	αἱ ὕᾰλοι hai húaloi
Genitive	τῆς ὑᾰ́λου tês huálou	τοῖν ὑᾰ́λοιν toîn huáloin	τῶν ὑᾰ́λων tôn huálōn
Dative	τῇ ὑᾰ́λῳ têi huálōi	τοῖν ὑᾰ́λοιν toîn huáloin	ταῖς ὑᾰ́λοις taîs huálois
Accusative	τὴν ὕᾰλον tḕn húalon	τὼ ὑᾰ́λω tṑ huálō	τᾱ̀ς ὑᾰ́λους tā̀s huálous
Vocative	ὕᾰλε húale	ὑᾰ́λω huálō	ὕᾰλοι húaloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὑαλᾶς (hualâs)
• ὑάλεος (huáleos)
• ὑάλη (huálē)
• ὑαλιεύς (hualieús)
• ὑαλίζω (hualízō)
• ὑαλικός (hualikós)
• ὑάλινος (huálinos)
• ὑάλιος (huálios)
• ὑαλῖτις (hualîtis)
• ὑαλοειδής (hualoeidḗs)
• ὑαλόεις (hualóeis)
• ὑαλουργεῖον (hualourgeîon)
• ὑαλουργικός (hualourgikós)
• ὑαλουργός (hualourgós)
• ὑαλοῦς (hualoûs)
• ὑαλόχρους (hualókhrous)
• ὑαλοψός (hualopsós)
• ὑαλώδης (hualṓdēs)
• ὑάλωμα (huálōma)
• ὑαλῶπις (hualôpis)
• ὑελέψης (huelépsēs)
• ὑελιάριος (hueliários)
• ὑέλιον (huélion)
• ὑελοψικός (huelopsikós)

 

Descendants

• Latin: hyalus

Further reading

• “ὕαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὕαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὕαλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette