ἐλλύτας

ἐλλύτας

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: name of something baked, kind of cake, `Kringel, Brezel' (Thera)

Other forms: ἐλλυτίς (for -της?) πλακοῦς τις H., εἰλύτας acc. pl. (Boeotia), ἐλύτης (gramm.)

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: Connected with εἰλύω (s. v.), either from the verbal stem (Ϝ)ελυ- or from the present-stem Ϝελνυ- or the perfect stem ϜεϜλῡ-. Other attempts to accomodate the different forms by Solmsen Unt. 240. Also Bechtel Dial. 1, 304. The connection with εἰλύω may well be wrong; the interchange λ\/λλ rather points to a Pre-Greek word; so the word will have started with *el^y-

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