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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *omíkʰlā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰleh₂.
Cognate with Lithuanian miglà (“mist, haze”), Sanskrit मेघ (meghá, “cloud, gloomy weather”), Old Armenian մէգ (mēg, “mist”) and Albanian mjegull (“fog; haze”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.mí.kʰlɛː/ → /oˈmi.xli/ → /oˈmi.xli/
Noun
ὀμῐ́χλη • (omíkhlē) f (genitive ὀμῐ́χλης); first declension
- mist, fog
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ὀμίχλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀμίχλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὀμίχλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀμίχλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὀμίχλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cloud idem, page 139.
- fog idem, page 331.
- haze idem, page 389.
- mist idem, page 535.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1077