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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Poetic word without etymology. It has been connected with δίνη (dínē, “whirlpool, eddy”), but this is formally difficult.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zdá.lɛː/ → /ˈza.li/ → /ˈza.li/
Noun
ζᾰ́λη • (zálē) f (genitive ζᾰ́λης); first declension
- squall, storm, downpour
- Synonym: θῠ́ελλᾰ (thúella)
Inflection
Further reading
- “ζάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ζάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ζάλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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