• ᾰ̔́λᾰς(hắlăs) —Attic

FromProto-Hellenic*hā́ls, fromProto-Indo-European*séh₂ls(“salt”). Cognates includeSanskritसलिल(salila),Old Armenianաղ(ał),Latinsāl, andOld Englishsealt (Englishsalt).^[1]

ᾰ̔́λς• (hắls) m (genitiveᾰ̔λός);third declension

1. salt
2. brine
3. (figurative)wit

• ⇒ Ancient Greek:ᾰ̔́λᾰς(hắlăs)
  • Mariupol Greek:а́лас(álas)
  • → Greek:άλας(álas)(learned)
• ⇒ Ancient Greek:ᾰ̔λᾰ́τῐον(hălắtĭon)(diminutive)
  • Byzantine Greek:ἁλάτιν(halátin)
    • Greek:αλάτι(aláti)
• → English:halo-
• → Latin:allēc (see there for further descendants)

ᾰ̔́λς• (hắls) f (genitiveᾰ̔λός);third declension

1. (poetic) thesea
   • 800BCE – 600BCE,Homer,Odyssey5.260–261:^[1]

     ἐν δ’ ὑπέρας τε κάλους τε πόδας τ’ ἐνέδησεν ἐν αὐτῇ,
     μοχλοῖσιν δ’ ἄρα τήν γε κατείρυσεν εἰςἅλα δῖαν.

     en d’ hupéras te kálous te pódas t’ enédēsen en autēî,
     mokhloîsin d’ ára tḗn ge kateírusen eishála dîan.

     • 1919 translation byAugustus Taber Murray^[2]

       And he made fast in the raft braces and halyards and sheets,
       and then with levers forced it down intothe brightsea.

• “ἅλς (A)”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἅλς (B)”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἅλς”, inLiddell & Scott (1889),An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἅλς”, inAutenrieth, Georg (1891),A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἅλς inBailly, Anatole (1935),Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001),A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἅλς inCunliffe, Richard J. (1924),A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published1963
• ἅλς in theDiccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἅλς”, inSlater, William J. (1969),Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G251 inStrong, James (1979),Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910),English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[3], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brine idem, page 99.
  • deep idem, page 203.
  • salt idem, page 732.
  • sea idem, page 744.
• ἅλς, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese),University of Chicago, since 2011

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