οὐλαί

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • ὀλαί (olaí) — Attic

Etymology

The comparison with ἔλυμος (élumos, “millet”) and ὄλυρα (ólura, “spelt”) is hypothetical. In view of the gloss ὄλπα (ólpa), which Furnée connects with ὄλβος (ólbos, “happiness, bliss”) under an original meaning "nourishment, corn, grain", it is probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

οὐλαί • (oulaí) f pl (genitive οὐλῶν); first declension

  1. barley-corns, which were sprinkled on the head of the sacrificial victim

Inflection
First declension of αἱ οὐλαί; τῶν οὐλῶν (Attic)
Case / # Plural
Nominative αἱ οὐλαί
hai oulaí
Genitive τῶν οὐλῶν
tôn oulôn
Dative ταῖς οὐλαῖς
taîs oulaîs
Accusative τᾱ̀ς οὐλᾱ́ς
tā̀s oulā́s
Vocative οὐλαί
oulaí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

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