τύλη

• τύλος (túlos)

Various cognates have been proposed:

• the Balto-Slavic group of Old Prussian tūlan (“many”), Lithuanian tūlas (“several”), tulìs (“nail on a car, plug”), Russian тул (tul, “neck”)
• the Germanic group of Old Norse þollr (“tree, peg”), English thole, Middle Low German dülle (“booty”)
• alternatively related to Latin tullius (“gush”), Welsh twl (“round elevation”), Albanian tul (“piece of meat without bone”), Ancient Greek σάλος (sálos, “gulf of waves”)

None of these Indo-European words is a close match for this word, so it may rather be of Pre-Greek origin.

According to Liddell & Scott, the υ is short in earlier authors and long in later ones. When the vowel is short:

When the vowel is long:

τύλη • (túlē) f (genitive τύλης); first declension

1. swelling, callus
2. hump of a camel
3. (in the plural) blisters on the hands
4. pad for carrying burdens on
5. cushion, mattress

• “τύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τύλη 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