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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: | |etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[without compassion]], [[pitiless]]; also [[unescapable]], [[unavoidable]] (in <b class="b3">νηλεες ἦμαρ</b> a.o.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-εές</b> (ep. poet. Il.); metr. lengthened <b class="b3">νηλειής</b>, <b class="b3">-ειές</b> (Hes. Th. 770 a. h. Ven. 245 [verse-begin], A. R. 4, 476; Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 74 u. 101)<br />Compounds: As 1. member a.o. in <b class="b3">νηλεό-ποινος</b> <b class="b2">punishing pitilessly</b> (Hes.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [???] <b class="b2">*n̥-h₁leu̯-es-</b> [[pitiless]]<br />Etymology: In the sense of <b class="b2">without pity</b> from the negation <b class="b2">*n̥</b> and <b class="b3">ἔλεος</b> (< <b class="b2">*h₁leu̯os</b>, s.v.) or <b class="b3">ἐλεέω</b>; as [[unescapable]] from <b class="b3">ἀλέομαι</b> < <b class="b2">*h₂leu̯-</b> (Schulze KZ 29, 262 = Kl. Schr. 375). S. Chantraine Rev. de phil. 56, 289, W. Burkert Zum altgr. Mitleidsbegriff, Diss. Erlangen 1955 (s. Seyffert Gnomon 31,389ff.). -- The PN <b class="b3">Νηλεύς</b> (Hom.) is often connected ("the one without pity" as god of death?, s. Fick-Bechtel 430, Schulze Q. 289, Deroy Rev. belge de phil. 36, 1058), but the name is rather Pre-Greek. Quite uncertain hypotheses on pre-gr. origin in Bosshardt 133 and Lombardo Ist. Lomb. 91, 248. | ||
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