βῶλος

• βόλος (bólos)

Unknown; a candidate for Pre-Greek origin. Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *bow-lo-, from an expressive root *bew- (“to swell, bubble; round object”) (compare Latin bulla (“bubble, knob”), Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object”)). Compare also Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “bulb”), βουνός (bounós, “hill, mound; clot”) and βουβών (boubṓn, “swelling; groin”), but according to Beekes these can hardly be related.

βῶλος • (bôlos) f (genitive βώλου); second declension

1. lump, clod of earth, turf

   Synonym: πηλός (pēlós)

2. (poetic) land, soil
3. lump of gold, nugget

• Greek: βώλος (vólos), σβώλος (svólos)
• → Late Latin: bōlus
  • → English: bolus; → English: bole
  • → Old French: bol
    • Middle French: bol
      • French: bol

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βῶλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 251
• “βῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βῶλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βῶλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βῶλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βῶλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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