ἄλιψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Only attested in Hesychius.

The word has been connected with Old Armenian աղիւս (ałiws, “brick”),[1] αἰγίλιψ (aigílips, “steep”) of unknown origin,[2] and ἠλίβατος (ēlíbatos, “high, steep”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ἄλιψ • (álips)

  1. (hapax) rock
    Synonym: πέτρα (pétra)

References
  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “աղիւս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 130b
  2. Tsagalis, Christos (2017) “ΑΠ’/ΚΑΤ’ ΑΙΓΙΛΙΠΟΣ ΠΕΤΡΗΣ: Homeric iconyms and Hittite answers”, in Tsagalis, Christos & Andreas Markantonatos, editors, The winnowing oar - New Perspectives in Homeric Studies, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, →DOI, pages 191-214

Further reading
  • “ἄλιψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 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
  • Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 11
  • “ἄλιψ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
  • Hesychius' Lexicon: α
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