εἵλη: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=2.<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">warmth, heat of the sun</b> (Ar. Ve. 772 [v. l. <b class="b3">ἕλη</b>], Luc.),<br />Other forms: (<b class="b3">εἴλη</b>, <b class="b3">ἕλη</b>), <b class="b3">βέλα</b> (=<b class="b3">Ϝέλα</b>) <b class="b3">ἥλιος</b>, <b class="b3">καὶ αὑγή</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπὸ Λακώνων</b> H. (idem to <b class="b3">ἔλα</b>); unclear <b class="b3">γέλαν</b> (=<b class="b3">Ϝέλαν</b>?) <b class="b3">αὑγην ἡλίου</b>, because of <b class="b3">γελεῖν λάμπειν</b>, <b class="b3">ἀνθεῖν</b> H. perh. to [[γελάω]], [[γαλήνη]] (s. vv.), but <b class="b3">γελοδυτία ἡλιοδυσία</b> H. belongs to <b class="b3">Ϝέλα</b>.<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">εἱλη-θερής</b> <b class="b2">warmed by the sun</b> (Hp., Gal.), <b class="b3">ἐλαθερές ἡλιοθαλπές</b> H., rather to <b class="b3">θέρομαι</b> then to <b class="b3">θέρος</b> (s. Schwyzer 513); from there <b class="b3">εἱληθερέω</b>, <b class="b3">-έομαι</b> <b class="b2">warm (oneself) in the sun</b> (Hp.); <b class="b3">εἱλι-κρινής</b>, <b class="b3">εἱλό-πεδον</b>, s. vv. As 2. member in <b class="b3">πρός-ειλος</b> <b class="b2">exposed to the heat of the sun, sunny</b> (A.), <b class="b3">εὔ-ειλος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Ar.), <b class="b3">ἄ-ειλος</b> [[sunless]] (A. Fr. 334).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">εἰλήϊον ἐν ἡλίῳ θερμανθέν</b> H. (false explanation of <b class="b3">Ίλήϊον Φ</b> 558 ?); denomin. verb <b class="b3">ἐλᾶται ἡλιοῦται</b>, fut. <b class="b3">βελ[λ]άσεται ἡλιωθήσεται</b> H. <b class="b3">εἰληθέντες</b> <b class="b2">warmed in the sun</b>, <b class="b3">εἰλέω</b> Eust.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1045] <b class="b2">*su̯el(H)-</b> [[burn]], [[singe]]<br />Etymology: PGr. <b class="b3">*Ϝhέλα</b> (<b class="b3">*hϜέλα</b>; cf. Schwyzer 226f.), from where <b class="b3">Ϝέλα</b>, <b class="b3">ἕλα</b> beside which one assumed a form with prothetic vowel: <b class="b3">*ἐ-Ϝhέλα</b> > <b class="b3">εἵλη</b>, <b class="b3">εἴλη</b>, belongs as verbal noun IE <b class="b2">*su̯elā</b> to a verb [[burn slowly]], [[singe]], which is still existent in Germanic and Baltic, e. g. OE [[swelan]], NHG [[schwelen]] (full grade), Lith. <b class="b2">svìlti</b> (zero grade of a disyllabic root: <b class="b2">*su̯elH-</b>) <b class="b2">singe (intr.), burn without flame</b> with many derivatives. The Greek forms present <b class="b3">εἱλ-</b> beside <b class="b3">ἑλ-</b>, which cannot be explained. From a root <b class="b2">*su̯el-</b> a form <b class="b2">h₁u̯el-</b> is hardly possible. Unless there is an unknown phonetic development, the problem cannot be solved: analogical spread of <b class="b3">εἱλ-</b>? From Greek also here 1. <b class="b3">ἀλέα</b> (<b class="b3">ἁλ-</b>) <b class="b2">heat of the sun</b>, s. v. - On more cognates further away, e. g. OHG [[swelzan]] [[burn]], OE [[sweltan]] [[die]], ONord. [[svelta]] [[hunger]], [[die]] from IE <b class="b2">*su̯eld-</b> (also Arm. <b class="b2">k`aɫc`</b>), the last certainly an independent root, s. WP. 2, 531f., esp. Solmsen Unt. 248ff. - S. also [[ἥλιος]]. On [[ἑλάνη]] [[torch]] s. v.