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 ῑ̓λῡ́ς; τῆς ῑ̓λῠ́ος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῑ̓λῡ́ς hē īlū́s	τὼ ῑ̓λῠ́ε tṑ īlúe	αἱ ῑ̓λῠ́ες hai īlúes
Genitive	τῆς ῑ̓λῠ́ος tês īlúos	τοῖν ῑ̓λῠ́οιν toîn īlúoin	τῶν ῑ̓λῠ́ων tôn īlúōn
Dative	τῇ ῑ̓λῠ́ῐ̈ têi īlúï	τοῖν ῑ̓λῠ́οιν toîn īlúoin	ταῖς ῑ̓λῠ́σῐ / ῑ̓λῠ́σῐν taîs īlúsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῑ̓λῡ́ν tḕn īlū́n	τὼ ῑ̓λῠ́ε tṑ īlúe	τᾱ̀ς ῑ̓λῦς / ῑ̓λῠ́ᾰς tā̀s īlûs / īlúas
Vocative	ῑ̓λῡ́ īlū́	ῑ̓λῠ́ε īlúe	ῑ̓λῠ́ες 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