- πέλλα 1
- πέλλα 1.Grammatical information: f.Meaning: `milk pail', also `drinking bowl, goblet' (Π 642, Hippon., Theoc., Nic.; on the uncertain meaning Leumann Hom. Wörter 267 f.).Other forms: -η acc. to Arc. 108, 1.Derivatives: πελλίς, -ίδος f. `id.' (Hippon., hell. poetry; like ἀμίς, ἀργυρίς, χρυσίς a.o.); here also πέλιξ, -ικος f. = κύλιξ or προχοΐδιον (Cratin.); -ίκη, Aeol. -ίκα f. = χοῦς, λεκάνη (Poll.); -ίχνη f. = πέλλα (Alcm., hell. poetry); after κύλ-ιξ, -ίχνη; cf. further ἑλίκ-η from ἕλιξ. Thus πέλυξ `id.' (Poll.) after κάλυξ. Also πελλητήρ, -ῆρος m. `milk pail, drinking bowl' (hell. authors in Ath. 11, 495 e), like ἀντλητήρ (: ἀντλέω); πελλαντῆρα ἀμολγέα H. (: *πελλαίνω).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: The synonymous Lat. pēluis f. `bowl, dish', Skt. pālavī f. `kind of barrel, vessel' might point for πέλλα to a basic form *πέλϜι̯ᾰ (shortened from *πηλϜι̯α, Schwyzer 279); a more simple *πέλι̯ᾰ has been considered because of Skt. pārī f. `milk-pail' (Schulze Q. 83f.). -- Diff. Kretschmer Glotta 30, 171: from *πελ-νᾱ because of φelna on a Rhaet. inscr. The connection of the Skt. words (class., partly very late) is rejected by Mayrhofer s. vv. or in any case strongly doubted. -- One has also compared πήληξ. -- The Latin form hardly leads to an IE word. Furnée 134 concludes because of -ικ-, -υκ- (and -λ-, -λλ-) to a Pre-Greek word.Page in Frisk: 2,498-499
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.