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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">wild pigeon</b>, (Il.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">πελειάς</b>, <b class="b3">-άδος</b>, mostly pl. <b class="b3">-άδες</b> f.<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">πελειο-θρέμμων</b> <b class="b2">feeding pigeons</b> (A.); also metaph. as name of the priestesses of the sanctuary of Dodona (Hdt., S., Paus.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">πελείους Κῶοι καὶ οἱ Ήπειρῶται τοὺς γέροντας καὶ τὰς πρεσβύτιδας</b> H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [804] <b class="b2">*pel-</b> [[gray]]<br />Etymology: As so many animal-names (Chantraine Form. 98, Schwyzer 474) formation with <b class="b3">ια-</b>suffix; from that with the in animal-names also frequent <b class="b3">αδ-</b>suffix (Chantraine 354 a. 356, Schw. 508, Sommer Münch. Stud. 4,6f.) <b class="b3">πελειάς</b>. The masc. <b class="b3">πελείους</b> is sec. innovation. -- Clearly like e.g. Lat. [[palumbēs]] named after the colour and cognate with <b class="b3">πελιός</b>, <b class="b3">πολιός</b>, <b class="b3">πελιτνός</b>, but in detail not quite clear. Accent as in <b class="b3">λίγεια</b>, <b class="b3">ἐλάχεια</b> (s. vv.) a.o., so from an <b class="b3">υ-</b>stem <b class="b3">*πελύς</b> [[gray]] ? -- Because of their gray-white haircolour the priestesses in Dodona (like the old ones in Cos and Epeiros) were called "the doves"; so the prop. meaning not with Bq, WP. 2, 53, W.-Hofmann s. [[palleō]] "the Gray-headed Old Ones". -- Cf. [[περιστερά]]. | |etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">wild pigeon</b>, (Il.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">πελειάς</b>, <b class="b3">-άδος</b>, mostly pl. <b class="b3">-άδες</b> f.<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">πελειο-θρέμμων</b> <b class="b2">feeding pigeons</b> (A.); also metaph. as name of the priestesses of the sanctuary of Dodona (Hdt., S., Paus.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">πελείους Κῶοι καὶ οἱ Ήπειρῶται τοὺς γέροντας καὶ τὰς πρεσβύτιδας</b> H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [804] <b class="b2">*pel-</b> [[gray]]<br />Etymology: As so many animal-names (Chantraine Form. 98, Schwyzer 474) formation with <b class="b3">ια-</b>suffix; from that with the in animal-names also frequent <b class="b3">αδ-</b>suffix (Chantraine 354 a. 356, Schw. 508, Sommer Münch. Stud. 4,6f.) <b class="b3">πελειάς</b>. The masc. <b class="b3">πελείους</b> is sec. innovation. -- Clearly like e.g. Lat. [[palumbēs]] named after the colour and cognate with <b class="b3">πελιός</b>, <b class="b3">πολιός</b>, <b class="b3">πελιτνός</b>, but in detail not quite clear. Accent as in <b class="b3">λίγεια</b>, <b class="b3">ἐλάχεια</b> (s. vv.) a.o., so from an <b class="b3">υ-</b>stem <b class="b3">*πελύς</b> [[gray]] ? -- Because of their gray-white haircolour the priestesses in Dodona (like the old ones in Cos and Epeiros) were called "the doves"; so the prop. meaning not with Bq, WP. 2, 53, W.-Hofmann s. [[palleō]] "the Gray-headed Old Ones". -- Cf. [[περιστερά]]. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=[[πέλεια]], ἡ, [[πελός]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> the [[wild]]-[[pigeon]], [[rock]]-[[pigeon]], [[stock]]-[[dove]], so called from its [[dark]] [[colour]], Hom., Soph.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> πέλειαι, ῶν, αἱ, [[name]] of [[prophetic]] priestesses, prob. borrowed from the [[prophetic]] doves of [[Dodona]], Hdt. | |||
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