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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Considered to be a derivation from the verb ἀμάομαι (amáomai, “to gather”). However, if this verb is used primarily for drawing liquids, it can hardly be connected with this noun. One might also think of ἀμάω (amáō, “to reap”), however, given the suffix -λλ-, Beekes calls the word Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.mal.la/ → /ˈa.mal.la/ → /ˈa.ma.la/
Noun
ἄμᾰλλᾰ • (ámalla) f (genitive ἀμᾰ́λλης); first declension
- sheaf, bundle of ears of corn
- Synonym: δρᾰ́γμᾰ (drágma)
- (poetic, by extension) corn
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ἄμαλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄμαλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄμαλλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄμαλλα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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