ἀλλά

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See also: αλλά, ἄλλα, and άλλα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἀλλ’ (all’) — apocopic

Etymology

Originally the neuter accusative plural of ἄλλος (állos, “another, different”) with shifted accent in an adverbial sense, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (“other”).^[1] Cognates include Latin alius, Old Irish aile, Old Armenian այլ (ayl), and Old English elles (English else).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /al.lá/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /alˈla/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /alˈla/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /alˈla/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈla/

Conjunction

ἀλλά • (allá)

but

Descendants

Greek: αλλά (allá)
Cappadocian Greek: αλά (alá)
Tsakonian: αλλά (allá)
→ Coptic: ⲁⲗⲗⲁ (alla)
→ Laz: ალა (ala)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀλλά”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 71

Further reading

“ἀλλά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἀλλά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἀλλά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἀλλά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
ἀλλά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἀλλά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
“ἀλλά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G235 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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