οὑλαί

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Grammatical information: f. pl.
Meaning: (unmealed) barley corns, roasted and sprinkled between the horns of the sacrificial animal (Ion. since γ 441); Lat. mola salsa (on the meaning Buttmann Lexil. 1, 191ff.).
Other forms: ὀλαί (Att.), ὀλοαί (Arc. IIa). Cf. ὄλπα χὸνδρου τις ἕψησις. ...ἔδεσμά τι H.
Compounds: As 1. member in οὑλο-χύτας acc. pl. f. id. (Hom.); οὑλό-χυτα τὰ κατάργματα H.; comp. of οὑλαί and χέω (s.v.) with το-suffix (cf. e.g. ἀκμό-θε-τον); οὑλο-χύτας followed in gender οὑλαι (diff. Schwyzer 439: for *οὑλὰς χυτάς); from this οὑλοχυτ-έομαι to besprinkle with οὑ. (Thphr. ap. Porph.). Also οὑλο-χόϊον (-χοεῖον?) ἀγγεῖον, εἰς ὅ αἱ ὀλαὶ ἐμβάλλονται πρὸς ἀπαρχὰς τῶν θυσιῶν H.; as if from *οὑλο-χόος, -χοέω.
Derivatives: (ὀλβ-άχνιον (with ὀλβ- = ὀλϜ-) n. basket for the ὀλαί (EM 257, 53 [Syracus.]; also ὀλβάχιον κανοῦν. Δεινόλοχος H.; ὀλβακήϊα id. (Dor. after H. s. εὔπλουτον κανοῦν). See s.v. ὀλαγμεύειν ὀλὰς βάλλειν Phot. with ὀλαιμεύς ὁ (cod. τὸ) τὰς ὀλὰς βάλλων H.; on γ οὑλαί ι s.v. Blumenthal Hesychst. 22. S.s.v. λαίγματα; these words do not belong to οὐλαί as then the suffix α + velar cannot be explained.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]
Etymology: As in Arc. ὀλοαί ο can stand for F (Brugmann-Thumb 44; cf. δοάν = δϜάν s. δήν), we get a basic ὀλϜαί. -- Technical word without convincing connection. The comparison with ὄλυραι and ἔλυμος barley (s.v.) is quite hypothetic. Even more doubtful combinations in Specht Ursprung 114, 127 a. 146. - Prob. Pre-Greek; cf. ὄλπα in H..