χηλός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, it may belong with χήμη (khḗmē, “mussel”) to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁y- (“to gape, be wide open”), the same root of χάσκω (kháskō, “to yawn”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰɛː.lós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰe̝ˈlos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çiˈlos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çiˈlos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çiˈlos/

Noun

χηλός • (khēlós) f (genitive χηλοῦ); second declension

large chest, coffer
coffin

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ χηλός; τῆς χηλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χηλός hē khēlós	τὼ χηλώ tṑ khēlṓ	αἱ χηλοί hai khēloí
Genitive	τῆς χηλοῦ tês khēloû	τοῖν χηλοῖν toîn khēloîn	τῶν χηλῶν tôn khēlôn
Dative	τῇ χηλῷ têi khēlôi	τοῖν χηλοῖν toîn khēloîn	ταῖς χηλοῖς taîs khēloîs
Accusative	τὴν χηλόν tḕn khēlón	τὼ χηλώ tṑ khēlṓ	τᾱ̀ς χηλούς tā̀s khēloús
Vocative	χηλέ khēlé	χηλώ khēlṓ	χηλοί khēloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

χήλινος (khḗlinos)

Descendants

Classical Syriac: ܟܘܝܠܐ

References

“χηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“χηλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
χηλός 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