ἰλύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation like ἀχλύς (akhlús) and δελφύς (delphús). Identical with Proto-Slavic *jьlъ (“silt, clay”) and Latvian īls (“very dark”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.ly̌ːs/ → /iˈlys/ → /iˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.ly̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈlys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈlys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈlys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈlis/

Noun

ἰ̄λῡ́ς • (īlū́s) f (genitive ἰ̄λῠ́ος); third declension

1. mud, slime, silt

   Synonyms: ἄσις (ásis), ὗλις (hûlis)

2. dregs, sediment of wine
3. impurity

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἰ̄λῡ́ς; τῆς ἰ̄λῠ́ος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἰ̄λῡ́ς hē īlū́s	τὼ ἰ̄λῠ́ε tṑ īlúe	αἱ ἰ̄λῠ́ες hai īlúes
Genitive	τῆς ἰ̄λῠ́ος tês īlúos	τοῖν ἰ̄λῠ́οιν toîn īlúoin	τῶν ἰ̄λῠ́ων tôn īlúōn
Dative	τῇ ἰ̄λῠ́ῐ̈ têi īlúï	τοῖν ἰ̄λῠ́οιν toîn īlúoin	ταῖς ἰ̄λῠ́σῐ / ἰ̄λῠ́σῐν taîs īlúsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἰ̄λῡ́ν tḕn īlū́n	τὼ ἰ̄λῠ́ε tṑ īlúe	τᾱ̀ς ἰ̄λῦς / ἰ̄λῠ́ᾰς tā̀s īlûs / īlúas
Vocative	ἰ̄λῡ́ īlū́	ἰ̄λῠ́ε īlúe	ἰ̄λῠ́ες īlúes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἴλυμα (íluma)
• ἰλυόεις (iluóeis)
• ἰλύω (ilúō)
• ἰλυώδης (iluṓdēs)

 

Further reading

• “ἰλύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰλύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἰλύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἰλύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἰλύς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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