εἵλη: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=2.<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[warmth]], [[heat of the sun]] (Ar. Ve. 772 [[[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[ἕλη]]], Luc.),<br />Other forms: ([[εἴλη]], [[ἕλη]]), [[βέλα]] (=[[Ϝέλα]]) [[ἥλιος]], <b class="b3">καὶ αὑγή</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπὸ Λακώνων</b> H. (idem to [[ἔλα]]); unclear [[γέλαν]] (=[[Ϝέλαν]]?) <b class="b3">αὑγην ἡλίου</b>, because of <b class="b3">γελεῖν λάμπειν</b>, [[ἀνθεῖν]] H. perhaps to [[γελάω]], [[γαλήνη]] (s. vv.), but <b class="b3">γελοδυτία ἡλιοδυσία</b> H. belongs to [[Ϝέλα]].<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">εἱλη-θερής</b> [[warmed by the sun]] (Hp., Gal.), <b class="b3">ἐλαθερές ἡλιοθαλπές</b> H., rather to [[θέρομαι]] then to [[θέρος]] (s. Schwyzer 513); from there [[εἱληθερέω]], <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. [[εἰληθέντες]] [[warmed in the sun]], [[εἰλέω]] 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 [[Ϝέλα]], [[ἕλα]] beside which one assumed a form with prothetic vowel: <b class="b3">*ἐ-Ϝhέλα</b> > [[εἵλη]], [[εἴλη]], 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. [[ἀλέα]] (<b class="b3">ἁλ-</b>) [[heat of the sun]], 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.