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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
According to Beekes, because of the Aeolic variation the word could be equated to Latin vallus (“stake, pole”), which is from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛ̂ː.los/ → /ˈi.los/ → /ˈi.los/
Noun
ἧλος • (hêlos) m (genitive ἥλου); second declension
- nailhead, stud
- (in general) nail
- (pathology) wart, callus (also on plants)
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Further reading
- “ἧλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἧλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἧλος 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