μόλις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Solmsen compares μόλις to μῶλος (môlos, “turmoil, fight”), as well as to μέλλω (méllō, “to be about to do, to hesitate”), but Beekes considers the former comparison phonetically problematic due to the root vocalism, and the latter semantically uncompelling.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mó.lis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/

Adverb

μόλις • (mólis)

only just
hardly, scarcely, barely

Descendants

Greek: μόλις (mólis)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μόλις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 963

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόλις (mólis).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
Hyphenation: μό‧λις

Adverb

μόλις • (mólis)

barely
just

Conjunction

μόλις • (mólis)

as soon as, once

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μόλις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 963

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μόλις

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