- ἀλέα 1
- ἀλέα 1.Grammatical information: f.Meaning: `warmth', spec. of the sun (Hom.).Other forms: Ion. ἀλέη. Also ἁλέα?, cf. ἀλεαίνειν below.Compounds: ἐπαλής s. s.v.Derivatives: ἁλυκρός `lukewarm' (Nic.), after θαλυκρός (or from fals split θ'ἁλυκρός?). Cf. ἀλυκτρόν εὔδινον H.; ἀλεόν θερμὸν η χλιαρόν H.; ἀλεής (S. Ph. 859; not ἀδεής with Reiske). - Denom. verb: ἀλεαίνω `warm (oneself)' (Hp.), in Attic aspirated acc. to Eust. 1636: ἁλ-.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1045] *suelH- `singe, burn'Etymology: With suffix -έα (Chantr. Form. 91) from the verb seen in Germanic and Baltic: OE swelan `burn slowly', NHG schwelen , Lith. svìlti `singe' (intr.). So *hϜαλ- \< *su̯l̥H-. S. εἵλη. - Rejected by Szemerényi, Gnomon 43 (1971) 653, who connects MIr. allas `sweat' [?] and Hitt. alliyanzi `they get warm'; also Lat. adoleo.Page in Frisk: 1,65-66
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.