ὕλη

See also: ύλη and ὕλῃ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *swel-, *sel- (firewood, wood, beam). Compare to Latin silva, English sill, Latvian sile (trough).

Possibly related are the Mycenaean Greek names 𐀄𐀨𐀍 (u-ra-jo, Hulaios) and 𐀄𐀩𐀄 (u-re-u, Hul(l)eus).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ῡ̔́λη • (hū́lē) f (genitive ῡ̔́λης); first declension

  1. wood, trees, forest
  2. timber, firewood
  3. stuff, material, substance
  4. matter

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Arabic: هَيُول (hayūl)
  • Christian Palestinian Aramaic: ܗܝܠܐ (/⁠hīlā⁠/)
  • Classical Syriac: ܗܘܠܐ (hūlā), ܗܝܘܠܐ (hiyūlā), ܗܝܠܐ (hīlā)
  • Coptic: ϩⲩⲗⲏ (hulē)
  • English: -yl
  • Greek: ύλη (ýli)
  • Latin: hȳlē
  • Norwegian Bokmål: -yl
  • Old Armenian: հիւղէ (hiwłē)
  • Middle English: hyle, yle, ylem
  • Classical Persian: هیولی (hayūlē, element; matter; stuff; substance)

References

  1. John Chadwick, Lydia Baumbach (1963) “The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary”, in Glotta : Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache, volume 41, number 3/4, Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (GmbH & Co. KG), →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 252 of 157–271:ὕλη

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