οὐλή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From an archaic form *ϝουλή (woulē), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“to hit”). Closest cognates are Latin vulnus (“wound”) and Irish fuil (“blood”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /uː.lɛ̌ː/ → /uˈli/ → /uˈli/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /uː.lɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /uˈle̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /uˈli/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /uˈli/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /uˈli/

Noun

οὐλή • (oulḗ) f (genitive οὐλῆς); first declension

1. scar, wound scarred over

Declension

First declension of ἡ οὐλή; τῆς οὐλῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ οὐλή hē oulḗ
Genitive	τῆς οὐλῆς tês oulês
Dative	τῇ οὐλῇ têi oulêi
Accusative	τὴν οὐλήν tḕn oulḗn
Vocative	οὐλή oulḗ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• οὐλόομαι (oulóomai)
• ούλοπρόσωπος (oúloprósōpos)
• οὔλωμα (oúlōma)
• οὔλωσις (oúlōsis)

 

Further reading

• “οὐλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οὐλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οὐλή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• οὐλή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• οὐλή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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