- ἕλος
- ἕλοςGrammatical information: n.Meaning: `marsh-meadow, marshy ground' (Il.); in H. ἕλη σύνδενδροι τόποι (cf. the etymology below).Compounds: As 1. member thematically lengthened in ἐλεό-θρεπτος `grown on marshy meadows' (Β 776), ἑλεο-σέλινον `celery from ...' (Thphr., Dsc.), also ἑλειο- through contraction from ἕλειον σέλ.; also in ἑλειο-βάτης `going through, living in marshes' (A. Pers. 39 [anap.]); from τὰ ἕλεια or with metrical lengthening; - with elision in ἑλεορέω `be a surveyor of marshes (forester? s. below.)' (Erythrae IVa), from *ἑλεο-(Ϝ)όρος. Unclear ἑλεσπίδας (s. v.); cf. also ἑλίχρυσος.Derivatives: ἕλειος `marshy' (Ion.-Att.), Έλεία surname of Artemis (Kos), ἑλώδης `id.' (Hp., Th.), ἑλείτης `growing in marshes' (Dion. Byz.), also surname of Apollon (Cyprus; cf. Redard Les noms grecs en -της 12, 24, 208; on the formation s. Schwyzer 500); ἑλει-ήτης (λέων Call. Fr. an. 88).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [901] *selos `marsh'Etymology: Inherited word, identical with Skt. sáras- n. `pond', IE *sélos; ἕλειος = Skt. sarasíya-. (Not to Lat. silva or ὕλη, in spite of H. and Thess. ὑλορέων beside Erythr. ἑλεορέων; see Wahrmann Glotta 19, 165).)Page in Frisk: 1,501-502
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.