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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ûː.lon/ → /ˈu.lon/ → /ˈu.lon/
Etymology 1
The etymology is uncertain. Maybe from the same root of εἰλέω (eiléō, “to press together”) or from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, round”), like ἐλύω (elúō, “to roll around”), εἰλύω (eilúō, “to enfold”), εἴλω (eílō, “to roll up, pack close”), ἑλίσσω (helíssō, “to turn round, to roll”).
Noun
οὖλον • (oûlon) n (genitive οὔλου); second declension
- (anatomy) gum (flesh around the teeth)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “οὖλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὖλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- οὖλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
οὖλον • (oûlon)
- inflection of οὖλος (oûlos):
- masculine accusative singular
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Etymology 3
Adverb
οὖλον • (oûlon)
- destructively