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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">elm tree</b> (Il.).<br />Other forms: Ion.- <b class="b3">έη</b>, Epid. <b class="b3">πελέα</b><br />Dialectal forms: Myc. \/[[pterewa]]\/.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">πτελέ-ινος</b> <b class="b2">of elm</b> (Att. a. Del. inscr., Thphr.), <b class="b3">-ών</b>, <b class="b3">-ῶνος</b> m. <b class="b2">elm-grove</b> (Gloss.). <b class="b3">Πτελεός</b> m. town in Thessaly etc. (Β 697 a.o.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation as <b class="b3">μηλέα</b>, <b class="b3">ἰτέα</b> a. other tree-names; the formally inviting connection with <b class="b3">πτέλας</b> [[boar]] can perh. be semant. argued, s. Strömberg Pfl.namen 140 (cf. NHG Eberesche; the boar lives also in elm-woods). Lat. [[pōpulus]] [[poplar]] deviates stongly formally and in meeaning; phonetically quite closer is [[tilia]] <b class="b2">lime-tree</b>; on this as well as on other tree-names, which have been adduced in the rather inconclusive discussion, s. Bq s.v., WP. 2, 84f., W.-Hofmann s. 2. [[pōpulus]] and [[tilia]]; further Merlingen <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 2, 56. On the anlautvariation <b class="b3">πτ-</b> : <b class="b3">π-</b> s. the lit. on <b class="b3">πόλεμος</b>, <b class="b3">πόλις</b>. -- From <b class="b3">πτελέα</b> prob. Arm. <b class="b2">t`eɫi</b> [[elm]] (for old consanguinity lastly Solta Sprache 3,227 w. n. 11); from Lat. [[tilia]] <b class="b3">τιλίαι αἴγειροι</b> H. -- Furnée 226 assumes that it is a variant of <b class="b3">μελὶη</b> [[ash]] and concludes that the word is Pre-Greek.

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