Αἴολος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From αἰόλος (aiólos, “moving, swift”), of uncertain origin: possibly from Proto-Hellenic *walwólos, from Proto-Indo-European *welwel-, reduplicative form of the root *welH- (“to turn”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ǎi̯.o.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.o.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.o.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.o.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.o.los/
Proper noun
Αἴολος • (Aíolos) m (genitive Αἰόλου); second declension
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Further reading
- “Αἴολος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Αἴολος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “Αἴολος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,000
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1140