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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind”). Further related to εἰλέω (eiléō, “to turn, roll”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /il.lás/ → /ilˈlas/ → /iˈlas/
Noun
ἰλλᾰ́ς • (illás) f (genitive ἰλλᾰ́δος); third declension
- rope, band, twisted cord
- redwing (Turdus iliacus)
- Synonym: τῠλᾰ́ς (tulás)
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἰλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἰλλάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἰλλάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἰλλάς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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