ἄλιζα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Kretschmer compared Old High German erila (“alder”) and Proto-Slavic *olьxa (“alder”). Either from a common European substrate root or alternatively directly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éliseh₂, from *h₂élis-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.liz.da/ → /ˈa.li.za/ → /ˈa.li.za/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.liz.da/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.za/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.za/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.za/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.za/

Noun

ἄλιζα • (áliza)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: λεύκη (leúkē, “white poplar”), as they say in Macedonia.

References

• “ἄλιζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄλιζα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄλιζα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 67–68
• Hesychius' Lexicon: α