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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, to this word belongs the poetic adjective λῡγαῖος (lūgaîos, “dark”), which differs in anlaut; an explanation remains to be found. Furnée assumes a prothetic vowel, for which there is little or no evidence. Nevertheless, the co-occurrence of λῡγαῖος (lūgaîos) and ἠλυγαῖος (ēlugaîos) is remarkable. The word might be Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛː.lý.ɡɛː/ → /iˈly.ʝi/ → /iˈli.ʝi/
Noun
ἠλῠ́γη • (ēlúgē) f (genitive ἠλῠ́γης); first declension
- shadow, darkness, gloom
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ἠλύγη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἠλύγη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἠλύγη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἠλύγη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 517