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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The comparison with ἔλυμος (élumos, “millet”) and ὄλυρα (ólura, “spelt”) is hypothetical. In view of the gloss ὄλπα (ólpa), which Furnée connects with ὄλβος (ólbos, “happiness, bliss”) under an original meaning "nourishment, corn, grain", it is probably Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uː.lǎi̯/ → /uˈlɛ/ → /uˈle/
Proper noun
οὐλαί • (oulaí) f pl (genitive οὐλῶν); first declension
- barley-corns, which were sprinkled on the head of the sacrificial victim
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Further reading
- “οὐλαί”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὐλαί”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οὐλαί”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οὐλαί in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- οὐλαί 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