κήλη

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂u-l-eh₂ (“tumour”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *kyla (“rupture”) and Proto-Germanic *haulaz (“hernia”). However the Attic form is still unexplained.

κήλη • (kḗlē) f (genitive κήλης); first declension

First declension of ἡ κήλη; τῆς κήλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κήλη hē kḗlē	τὼ κήλᾱ tṑ kḗlā	αἱ κῆλαι hai kêlai
Genitive	τῆς κήλης tês kḗlēs	τοῖν κήλαιν toîn kḗlain	τῶν κηλῶν tôn kēlôn
Dative	τῇ κήλῃ têi kḗlēi	τοῖν κήλαιν toîn kḗlain	ταῖς κήλαις taîs kḗlais
Accusative	τὴν κήλην tḕn kḗlēn	τὼ κήλᾱ tṑ kḗlā	τᾱ̀ς κήλᾱς tā̀s kḗlās
Vocative	κήλη kḗlē	κήλᾱ kḗlā	κῆλαι kêlai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“κήλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κήλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κήλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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

κήλη • (kíli) f (uncountable)

κήλη

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