χάλαζα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes from Proto-Indo-European *gʰelh₂d- (“hail; hoarfrost”). Cognate with Persian ژاله (žâle, “hail”).^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰá.laz.da/ → /ˈxa.la.za/ → /ˈxa.la.za/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰá.laz.da/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰa.la.za/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.la.za/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.la.za/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.la.za/

Noun

χᾰ́λαζᾰ • (khắlază) f (genitive χᾰλάζης); first declension

1. hail, sleet
2. pimple, tubercle
3. knot, lump

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χᾰ́λαζᾰ hē khắlază	τὼ χᾰλάζᾱ tṑ khălázā	αἱ χᾰ́λαζαι hai khắlazai
Genitive	τῆς χᾰλάζης tês khălázēs	τοῖν χᾰλάζαιν toîn khălázain	τῶν χᾰλαζῶν tôn khălazôn
Dative	τῇ χᾰλάζῃ têi khălázēi	τοῖν χᾰλάζαιν toîn khălázain	ταῖς χᾰλάζαις taîs khălázais
Accusative	τὴν χᾰ́λαζᾰν tḕn khắlazăn	τὼ χᾰλάζᾱ tṑ khălázā	τᾱ̀ς χᾰλάζᾱς tā̀s khălázās
Vocative	χᾰ́λαζᾰ khắlază	χᾰλάζᾱ khălázā	χᾰ́λαζαι khắlazai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First declension of ἡ χᾰ́λαζᾰ; τῆς χᾰλάζης (Attic)

Derived terms

• χαλαζάω (khalazáō)
• χαλαζήεις (khalazḗeis)
• χαλάζιον (khalázion)
• χαλάζιος (khalázios)
• χᾰλᾰζοφῠ́λᾰξ (khălăzophŭ́lăx)
• χαλαζώδης (khalazṓdēs)

References

1. Austin, The. 2018. " Indo-European Lexicon: PIE Etymon And IE Reflexes ". Lrc.La.Utexas.Edu. Accessed December 22 2018. .

Further reading

• “χάλαζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χάλαζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χάλαζα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χάλαζα 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
• χάλαζα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χάλαζα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5464 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.
  • hail idem, page 380.
  • sleet idem, page 783.
• 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