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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formation like ἀχλύς (akhlús) and δελφύς (delphús). Identical with Proto-Slavic *jьlъ (“silt, clay”) and Latvian īls (“very dark”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iː.ly̌ːs/ → /iˈlys/ → /iˈlis/
Noun
ἰ̄λῡ́ς • (īlū́s) f (genitive ἰ̄λῠ́ος); third declension
- mud, slime, silt
- Synonyms: ἄσις (ásis), ὗλις (hûlis)
- dregs, sediment of wine
- impurity
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ἰλύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰλύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἰλύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἰλύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἰλύς 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