ἄλιψ
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Only attested in Hesychius.
The word has been connected with Old Armenian աղիւս (ałiws, “brick”),[1] αἰγίλιψ (aigílips, “steep”) of unknown origin,[2] and ἠλίβατος (ēlíbatos, “high, steep”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.lips/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.lips/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.lips/
Noun
[edit]ἄλιψ • (álips)
- (hapax) rock
- Synonym: πέτρα (pétra)
- [5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Α:
- ἄλιψ· πέτρα
- álips; pétra
- álips: rock]
References
[edit]- ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “աղիւս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 130b
- ^ Tsagalis, Christos (2017) “ΑΠ’/ΚΑΤ’ ΑΙΓΙΛΙΠΟΣ ΠΕΤΡΗΣ: Homeric iconyms and Hittite answers”, in Tsagalis, Christos & Andreas Markantonatos, editors, The winnowing oar - New Perspectives in Homeric Studies, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, , pages 191-214
Further reading
[edit]- “ἄλιψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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
- Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate[1], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 11
- “ἄλιψ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- Hesychius' Lexicon: α