Φίλαι

Ancient Greek

From Demotic p-ꜣlq, from Late Egyptian p(ꜣ)-jw-rq (“Philae”, literally “the Island of the Turning”). Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ (pilak), Bohairic Coptic ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕϩ (pilakh), Meroitic 𐦧𐦢𐦬𐦡𐦳𐦡 (pileqe).

Φῐ́λαι • (Phílai) f pl (genitive Φῐλῶν); first declension

First declension of αἱ Φῐ́λαι; τῶν Φῐλῶν (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	αἱ Φῐ́λαι hai Phílai
Genitive	τῶν Φῐλῶν tôn Philôn
Dative	ταῖς Φῐ́λαις taîs Phílais
Accusative	τᾱ̀ς Φῐ́λᾱς tā̀s Phílās
Vocative	Φῐ́λαι Phílai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
Φίλαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

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