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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₃l(e)n-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l-. Cognates include Sanskrit अरत्नि (aratní), Latin ulna, Old Armenian ողն (ołn), ուլն (uln), Albanian llërë and Old English elnboga (English elbow). This reconstruction however remains uncertain.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔː.lé.nɛː/ → /oˈle.ni/ → /oˈle.ni/
Noun
ὠλένη • (ōlénē) f (genitive ὠλένης); first declension
- (anatomy) elbow, lower arm
- Synonym: ἀγκών (ankṓn)
- mat, mattress (=Latin torus)
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References
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 23
Further reading
- “ὠλένη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὠλένη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὠλένη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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