ἦλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained, but probably related to μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̂ː.lon/ → /ˈi.lon/ → /ˈi.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛ̂ː.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe̝.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.lon/

Noun

ἦλον • (êlon) n (genitive ἤλου); second declension

1. sloe or plum

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἦλον; τοῦ ἤλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἦλον tò êlon	τὼ ἤλω tṑ ḗlō	τᾰ̀ ἦλᾰ tà êla
Genitive	τοῦ ἤλου toû ḗlou	τοῖν ἤλοιν toîn ḗloin	τῶν ἤλων tôn ḗlōn
Dative	τῷ ἤλῳ tôi ḗlōi	τοῖν ἤλοιν toîn ḗloin	τοῖς ἤλοις toîs ḗlois
Accusative	τὸ ἦλον tò êlon	τὼ ἤλω tṑ ḗlō	τᾰ̀ ἦλᾰ tà êla
Vocative	ἦλον êlon	ἤλω ḗlō	ἦλᾰ êla
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἦλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἦλον 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