ἀλλά
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally the neuter accusative plural of ἄλλος (állos, “another, different”) with shifted accent in an adverbial sense, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (“other”).[1] Cognates include Latin alius, Old Irish aile, Old Armenian այլ (ayl), and Old English elles (English else).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /al.lá/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /alˈla/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /alˈla/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /alˈla/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈla/
Conjunction
[edit]ἀλλά • (allá)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: αλλά (allá)
- Cappadocian Greek: αλά (alá)
- Tsakonian: αλλά (allá)
- → Coptic: ⲁⲗⲗⲁ (alla)
- → Laz: ალა (ala)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀλλά”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 71
Further reading
[edit]- “ἀλλά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀλλά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀλλά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀλλά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀλλά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀλλά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀλλά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G235 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.