- ἀπελλαι
- ἀπέλλαιGrammatical information: f. pl.Meaning: `(people's) assembly' (IG 5: 1, 1144, 21; 1146, 41; Gytheion Ia); = σηκοί, ἐκκλησίαι, ἀρχαιρεσίαι H.Dialectal forms: Dorian.Derivatives: Άπελλαῖος, -αιών Dor. month name (Delphi, Epidauros; Tenos); ἀπελλαῖα, τὰ `sacrifice at the apellai' (Delphi); ἀπελλακάς ἱερῶν κοινωνούς H. - Denom. ἀπελλάζω, Lacon. for ἐκκλησιάζω (Plu., H.).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Solmsen Wortforsch. 18f. assumed *n̥-pel-i̯ă, zero grade of ἐν and a verb cognate to Lat. pello `push', so orig. `pushing inwards'; but *n̥- is rare. Rejected by Lagercrantz Mélanges Boisacq 2, 57ff., who takes it as `calling forth', to Lat. appello, populus, Goth. spill (cf. ἀπειλή), from *apo-pelia; Frisk thinks the preverb not fitting. See Bq.; Barić (s. Mayer Glotta 32, 75): Macedonian, to ὀφέλλω. So the etym. is unknown. Formally IE *h₂pel- is possible. - On the meaning De Sainte Croix, Origins Pelop. War 1972, 346f. S. also 'Απόλλων.Page in Frisk: 1,120
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