λᾶας

Ancient Greek

Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w- (“stone”), though Beekes is skeptical and suspects a Pre-Greek origin; cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀨𐀁𐀊 (ra-e-ja, “stone”), Proto-Albanian *laurā (Albanian lerë (“boulder”)), Proto-Celtic *lausā (“stone”) (whence also Proto-Celtic *līwos (“stone”) and Old Irish lie (“stone”)),^[1] and possibly Old Armenian լեառն (leaṙn, “mountain”).

λᾶᾰς • (lâăs) m or f (genitive λᾶος); third declension

Irregular declension of ὁ, ἡ λᾶᾰς; τοῦ, τῆς λᾶος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ λᾶᾰς ho, hē lâăs	τὼ λᾶε tṑ lâe	οἱ, αἱ λᾶες hoi, hai lâes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς λᾶος toû, tês lâos	—	τῶν λᾱ́ων tôn lā́ōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ λᾶϊ tôi, têi lâï	—	τοῖς, ταῖς λᾱ́εσῐ / λᾱ́εσσῐ / λᾱ́εσῐν / λᾱ́εσσῐν toîs, taîs lā́es(s)ĭ / lā́es(s)ĭn
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν λᾶα / λᾶαν tòn, tḕn lâa(n)	τὼ λᾶε tṑ lâe	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς λᾶας toùs, tā̀s lâas
Vocative	λᾶᾰς lâăs	λᾶε lâe	λᾶες lâes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λᾶας”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 817-8

“λᾶας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
λᾶας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
λᾶας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“λᾶας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“λᾶας”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011