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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w- (“stone”). Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀨𐀁𐀊 (ra-e-ja, “stone”), Proto-Albanian *laurā (Albanian lerë (“boulder”)), Proto-Celtic *lausā (“stone”) (whence also Proto-Celtic *līwos (“stone”) and Old Irish lie (“stone”)) and possibly Old Armenian լեառն (leaṙn, “mountain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lâː.as/ → /ˈla.as/ → /ˈla.as/
Noun
λᾶᾰς • (lâas) m or f (genitive λᾶος); third declension
- stone
- Synonym: λίθος (líthos)
Declension
ὁ, ἡ λᾶᾰς ho, hē lâas
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τὼ λᾶε tṑ lâe
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οἱ, αἱ λᾶες hoi, hai lâes
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τοῦ, τῆς λᾶος toû, tês lâos
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τῶν λᾱ́ων tôn lā́ōn
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τῷ, τῇ λᾶϊ tôi, têi lâï
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τοῖς, ταῖς λᾱ́εσῐ / λᾱ́εσσῐ / λᾱ́εσῐν / λᾱ́εσσῐν toîs, taîs lā́es(s)i / lā́es(s)in
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τὸν, τὴν λᾶα / λᾶαν tòn, tḕn lâa(n)
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τὼ λᾶε tṑ lâe
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς λᾶας toùs, tā̀s lâas
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λᾶᾰς lâas
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λᾶε lâe
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λᾶες lâes
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Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “λᾶας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λᾶας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λᾶας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λᾶας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press