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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *pélas, from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₂-s, from *pelh₂-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pé.las/ → /ˈpe.las/ → /ˈpe.las/
Adverb
πέλᾰς • (pélas)
- nearby, hard by, close by
Derived terms
References
- “πέλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πέλας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πέλας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πέλας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πέλας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.