ὕλη
See also: ύλη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *swel-, *sel- (“firewood, wood, beam”). Compare to Latin silva, English sill, Latvian sile (“trough”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hy̌ː.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)y.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.li/
Noun
ῡ̔́λη • (hū́lē) f (genitive ῡ̔́λης); first declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῡ̔́λη hē hū́lē |
τὼ ῡ̔́λᾱ tṑ hū́lā |
αἱ ὗλαι hai hûlai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῡ̔́λης tês hū́lēs |
τοῖν ῡ̔́λαιν toîn hū́lain |
τῶν ῡ̔λῶν tôn hūlôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῡ̔́λῃ têi hū́lēi |
τοῖν ῡ̔́λαιν toîn hū́lain |
ταῖς ῡ̔́λαις taîs hū́lais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῡ̔́λην tḕn hū́lēn |
τὼ ῡ̔́λᾱ tṑ hū́lā |
τᾱ̀ς ῡ̔́λᾱς tā̀s hū́lās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῡ̔́λη hū́lē |
ῡ̔́λᾱ hū́lā |
ὗλαι hûlai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Coptic: ϩⲩⲗⲏ (hulē)
- English: -yl
- Greek: ύλη (ýli)
- Latin: hyle
- Old Armenian: հիւղէ (hiwłē)
- Armenian: հյուլե (hyule)
- Middle English: hyle, yle, ylem
- Classical Persian: هیولی (hayūlē, “element; matter; stuff; substance”)
- Persian: هیولا (hayūlā)
Further reading
- “ὕλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὕλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὕλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὕλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ὕλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G5208 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/greece-xiv
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension