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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">marsh-meadow, marshy ground</b> (Il.); in H. <b class="b3">ἕλη σύνδενδροι τόποι</b> (cf. the etymology below).<br />Compounds: As 1. member thematically lengthened in <b class="b3">ἐλεό-θρεπτος</b> <b class="b2">grown on marshy meadows</b> (Β 776), <b class="b3">ἑλεο-σέλινον</b> <b class="b2">celery from ...</b> (Thphr., Dsc.), also <b class="b3">ἑλειο-</b> through contraction from <b class="b3">ἕλειον σέλ</b>.; also in <b class="b3">ἑλειο-βάτης</b> <b class="b2">going through, living in marshes</b> (A. Pers. 39 [anap.]); from <b class="b3">τὰ ἕλεια</b> or with metrical lengthening; - with elision in <b class="b3">ἑλεορέω</b> <b class="b2">be a surveyor of marshes (forester? s. below.)</b> (Erythrae IVa), from <b class="b3">*ἑλεο-(Ϝ)όρος</b>. Unclear [[ἑλεσπίδας]] (s. v.); cf. also <b class="b3">ἑλίχρυσος</b>.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἕλειος</b> [[marshy]] (Ion.-Att.), <b class="b3">Ἐλεία</b> <b class="b2">surname of Artemis (Kos), ἑλώδης `id.</b> (Hp., Th.), <b class="b3">ἑλείτης</b> <b class="b2">growing in marshes</b> (Dion. Byz.), also surname of Apollon (Cyprus; cf. Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 12, 24, 208; on the formation s. Schwyzer 500); <b class="b3">ἑλει-ήτης</b> (<b class="b3">λέων</b> Call. Fr. [[an]]. 88).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [901] <b class="b2">*selos</b> [[marsh]]<br />Etymology: Inherited word, identical with Skt. <b class="b2">sáras-</b> n. [[pond]], IE <b class="b2">*sélos</b>; <b class="b3">ἕλειος</b> = Skt. <b class="b2">sarasíya-</b>. (Not to Lat. [[silva]] or <b class="b3">ὕλη</b>, in spite of H. and Thess. <b class="b3">ὑλορέων</b> beside Erythr. <b class="b3">ἑλεορέων</b>; see Wahrmann Glotta 19, 165).)

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