χίλιοι

• χήλιοι (khḗlioi) — Laconian
• χέλιοι (khélioi) (Doric)
• χέλλιοι (khéllioi) — Lesbian, Thessalian
• χείλιοι (kheílioi) — Ionic

From Proto-Hellenic *kʰehliyoi, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰesliyoy, from *ǵʰes-, whence χείρ (kheír)), as if meaning “full hand”. Cognates include Sanskrit सहस्र (sahásra) and Latin mīlle.

χῑ́λῐοι • (khī́lioi) (feminine χῑ́λῐαι, neuter χῑ́λῐα)

1. thousand

• Greek: χίλια (chília)
• Bulgarian: хиляда (hiljada)
• Pontic Greek: χ̌ίλι̮α (šíli̮a), χ̌ίλα̤ (šílä)
  • → Laz: შილია (şilia), შილჲა (şilya)
• English: chiliad

• “χίλιοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χίλιοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χίλιοι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χίλιοι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• χίλιοι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G5507 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • thousand idem, page 868.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag