Γελλώ

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from Akkadian 𒂵𒀠𒇻𒌑 (ga-al-lu-ú, gallû), 𒋼𒇲 (GAL5.LÁ, gallû, “Gallu”),[1][2] a word from the Assyro-Babylonian religion perhaps related to ghoul,[3] as a demonic revenant who brings sickness and death,[4] from Sumerian 𒋼𒇲 (GAL5.LÁ, galla, “demon; constable”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Γελλώ • (Gellṓ) f (genitive Γελλοῦς); third declension

  1. Gello (a kind of vampiress, demoness, or goblin supposed to carry off young children and cause infertility)
    • 630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Collected Works 47:
      Γέλλως παιδοφιλωτέρα·
      Géllōs paidophilōtéra;
      (She) more child-loving than Gello.
    • 3rd century BCE, Erinna, SHell. 401.41
    • Cyranides 2.31.21
    • Cyranides 2.40.37:
      τὴν Γελλὼ τὴν πνίγουσαν τὰ βρέφη καὶ τὰς λεχοὺς ἐνοχλοῦσαν
      tḕn Gellṑ tḕn pnígousan tà bréphē kaì tàs lekhoùs enokhloûsan
    • c. 117 CE – 138 CE, Zenobius, The Proverbs of Zenobius 3.3

Declension

Third declension of ἡ Γελλώ; τῆς Γελλοῦς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Γελλώ
hē Gellṓ
Genitive τῆς Γελλοῦς
tês Gelloûs
Dative τῇ Γελλοῖ
têi Gelloî
Accusative τὴν Γελλώ
tḕn Gellṓ
Vocative Γελλοῖ
Gelloî
Notes:

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “gallû”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011, pages 18-19
  2. ^ Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Harvard University Press, 1992), 82-87.
  3. ^ A.A. Barb, "Antaura. The Mermaid and the Devil's Grandmother: A Lecture," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 29 (1966), p. 5.
  4. ^ M.L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, reprinted 2003), 58-59 and 111.
    On gallû, see also W.H.Ph. Römer, "The Religion of Ancient Mesopotamia," in Historia Religionum: Religions of the Past (Brill, 1969), 182

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