- νηλ(ε)ής
- νηλ(ε)ήςGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: `without compassion, pitiless'; also `unescapable, unavoidable' (in νηλεες ἦμαρ a.o.).Other forms: -εές (ep. poet. Il.); metr. lengthened νηλειής, -ειές (Hes. Th. 770 a. h. Ven. 245 [verse-begin], A. R. 4, 476; Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 74 u. 101)Compounds: As 1. member a.o. in νηλεό-ποινος `punishing pitilessly' (Hes.).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [???] *n̥-h₁leu̯-es- `pitiless'Etymology: In the sense of `without pity' from the negation *n̥ and ἔλεος (\< *h₁leu̯os, s.v.) or ἐλεέω; as `unescapable' from ἀλέομαι \< *h₂leu̯- (Schulze KZ 29, 262 = Kl. Schr. 375). S. Chantraine Rev. de phil. 56, 289, W. Burkert Zum altgr. Mitleidsbegriff, Diss. Erlangen 1955 (s. Seyffert Gnomon 31,389ff.). -- The PN Νηλεύς (Hom.) is often connected ("the one without pity" as god of death?, s. Fick-Bechtel 430, Schulze Q. 289, Deroy Rev. belge de phil. 36, 1058), but the name is rather Pre-Greek. Quite uncertain hypotheses on pre-gr. origin in Bosshardt 133 and Lombardo Ist. Lomb. 91, 248.Page in Frisk: 2,
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