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Ancient Greek
Etymology
For the formation, one might compare ἀγκάλη (ankálē) and ὀμφαλός (omphalós). The word is mostly connected with γυῖον (guîon, “hand”) and γύης (gúēs, “earth”), so it may derive either from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“hand”) or from Proto-Indo-European *gu(H)- (“to bend”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡý.a.lon/ → /ˈʝy.a.lon/ → /ˈʝi.a.lon/
Noun
γῠ́ᾰλον • (gúalon) n (genitive γῠᾰ́λου); second declension
- hollow of the cuirass
- hollow of a vessel
- hollow of a rock, cave
- (in the plural) vales, dells
Inflection
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Further reading
- “γύαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γύαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “γύαλον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- γύαλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γύαλον 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