τηλία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

σηλία (sēlía)

Etymology

A technical expression in -ία (-ía), like σχεδία (skhedía), κλισία (klisía) and ἑστία (hestía). In the sense of "hoop of a sieve", this word and σηλία (sēlía) are often connected with σήθω (sḗthō, “to sieve”), but the derivation is unclear. In the meaning "table, board", the connection with Latin tellus (“earth”) and Sanskrit तल (tala, “bottom, floor”) is given by Pokorny.

Beekes claims that this cannot be upheld as Greek would have a lengthened grade formation, and further that for such a technical word, Pre-Greek origin is likely. Beekes further claims that the variation τ/σ is typical for Pre-Greek words, and that this word must originate there.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tɛː.lí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /te̝ˈli.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tiˈli.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tiˈli.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈli.a/

Noun

τηλῐ́ᾱ • (tēlĭ́ā) f (genitive τηλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

board or table with a raised rim or edge
table or stage whereon cocks and quails where set to fight
chimney board, trapdoor
hoop of a sieve

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τηλῐ́ᾱ; τῆς τηλῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τηλῐ́ᾱ hē tēlĭ́ā	τὼ τηλῐ́ᾱ tṑ tēlĭ́ā	αἱ τηλῐ́αι hai tēlĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς τηλῐ́ᾱς tês tēlĭ́ās	τοῖν τηλῐ́αιν toîn tēlĭ́ain	τῶν τηλῐῶν tôn tēlĭôn
Dative	τῇ τηλῐ́ᾳ têi tēlĭ́āi	τοῖν τηλῐ́αιν toîn tēlĭ́ain	ταῖς τηλῐ́αις taîs tēlĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν τηλῐ́ᾱν tḕn tēlĭ́ān	τὼ τηλῐ́ᾱ tṑ tēlĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς τηλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s tēlĭ́ās
Vocative	τηλῐ́ᾱ tēlĭ́ā	τηλῐ́ᾱ tēlĭ́ā	τηλῐ́αι tēlĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.