τᾶλις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps an Aeolic form of τῆλις (têlis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tâː.lis/ → /ˈta.lis/ → /ˈta.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tâː.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈta.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈta.lis/

Noun

τᾶλῐς • (tâlĭs) f (genitive τᾱ́λῐδος); third declension

1. marriageable maiden

Declension

Third declension of ἡ τᾶλῐς; τῆς τᾱ́λῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τᾶλῐς hē tâlĭs	τὼ τᾱ́λῐδε tṑ tā́lĭde	αἱ τᾱ́λῐδες hai tā́lĭdes
Genitive	τῆς τᾱ́λῐδος tês tā́lĭdos	τοῖν τᾱλῐ́δοιν toîn tālĭ́doin	τῶν τᾱλῐ́δων tôn tālĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ τᾱ́λῐδῐ têi tā́lĭdĭ	τοῖν τᾱλῐ́δοιν toîn tālĭ́doin	ταῖς τᾱ́λῐσῐ / τᾱ́λῐσῐν taîs tā́lĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν τᾱ́λῐδᾰ tḕn tā́lĭdă	τὼ τᾱ́λῐδε tṑ tā́lĭde	τᾱ̀ς τᾱ́λῐδᾰς tā̀s tā́lĭdăs
Vocative	τᾶλῐς tâlĭs	τᾱ́λῐδε tā́lĭde	τᾱ́λῐδες tā́lĭdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “τᾶλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τᾶλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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