κῆλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

It has been compared with Sanskrit शर्या (śaryā, “cane, arrow, missile”), शल्य (śalya, “spear, javelin”) and further Middle Irish cail (“spear”), Old Norse hali (“tail”). However, all these words go back to a root with a short vowel, as opposed to this word, with a long one. Connection with κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood, timber”) is rejected by Frisk and DELG.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κῆλον • (kêlon) n (genitive κήλου); second declension

  1. (in the plural) shafts of an arrow, arrows, projectiles

Inflection
Second declension of τὸ κῆλον; τοῦ κήλου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ κῆλον
tò kêlon		 τὼ κήλω
tṑ kḗlō		 τᾰ̀ κῆλᾰ
tà kêla
Genitive τοῦ κήλου
toû kḗlou		 τοῖν κήλοιν
toîn kḗloin		 τῶν κήλων
tôn kḗlōn
Dative τῷ κήλῳ
tôi kḗlōi		 τοῖν κήλοιν
toîn kḗloin		 τοῖς κήλοις
toîs kḗlois
Accusative τὸ κῆλον
tò kêlon		 τὼ κήλω
tṑ kḗlō		 τᾰ̀ κῆλᾰ
tà kêla
Vocative κῆλον
kêlon		 κήλω
kḗlō		 κῆλᾰ
kêla
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading
  • “κῆλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κῆλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κῆλον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κῆλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κῆλον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • 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
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