ἰλύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation like ἀχλύς (akhlús) and δελφύς (delphús). Identical with Proto-Slavic *jьlъ (“silt, clay”) and Latvian īls (“very dark”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ἰ̄λῡ́ς • (īlū́s) f (genitive ἰ̄λῠ́ος); third declension

  1. mud, slime, silt
    Synonyms: ἄσις (ásis), ὗλις (hûlis)
  2. dregs, sediment of wine
  3. impurity

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ἰ̄λῡ́ς; τῆς ἰ̄λῠ́ος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ἰ̄λῡ́ς
hē īlū́s		 τὼ ἰ̄λῠ́ε
tṑ īlúe		 αἱ ἰ̄λῠ́ες
hai īlúes
Genitive τῆς ἰ̄λῠ́ος
tês īlúos		 τοῖν ἰ̄λῠ́οιν
toîn īlúoin		 τῶν ἰ̄λῠ́ων
tôn īlúōn
Dative τῇ ἰ̄λῠ́ῐ̈
têi īlúï		 τοῖν ἰ̄λῠ́οιν
toîn īlúoin		 ταῖς ἰ̄λῠ́σῐ / ἰ̄λῠ́σῐν
taîs īlúsi(n)
Accusative τὴν ἰ̄λῡ́ν
tḕn īlū́n		 τὼ ἰ̄λῠ́ε
tṑ īlúe		 τᾱ̀ς ἰ̄λῦς / ἰ̄λῠ́ᾰς
tā̀s īlûs / īlúas
Vocative ἰ̄λῡ́
īlū́		 ἰ̄λῠ́ε
īlúe		 ἰ̄λῠ́ες
īlúes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • ἴλυμα (íluma)
  • ἰλυόεις (iluóeis)
  • ἰλύω (ilúō)
  • ἰλυώδης (iluṓdēs)

Further reading
  • “ἰλύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ἰλύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ἰλύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ἰλύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ἰλύς 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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