- πτελέα
- πτελέαGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `elm tree' (Il.).Other forms: Ion.- έη, Epid. πελέαDialectal forms: Myc. \/pterewa\/.Derivatives: πτελέ-ινος `of elm' (Att. a. Del. inscr., Thphr.), -ών, -ῶνος m. `elm-grove' (Gloss.). Πτελεός m. town in Thessaly etc. (Β 697 a.o.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Formation as μηλέα, ἰτέα a. other tree-names; the formally inviting connection with πτέλας `boar' can perh. be semant. argued, s. Strömberg Pfl.namen 140 (cf. NHG Eberesche; the boar lives also in elm-woods). Lat. pōpulus `poplar' deviates stongly formally and in meeaning; phonetically quite closer is tilia `lime-tree'; on this as well as on other tree-names, which have been adduced in the rather inconclusive discussion, s. Bq s.v., WP. 2, 84f., W.-Hofmann s. 2. pōpulus and tilia; further Merlingen Μνήμης χάριν 2, 56. On the anlautvariation πτ- : π- s. the lit. on πόλεμος, πόλις. -- From πτελέα prob. Arm. t`eɫi `elm' (for old consanguinity lastly Solta Sprache 3,227 w. n. 11); from Lat. tilia τιλίαι αἴγειροι H. -- Furnée 226 assumes that it is a variant of μελὶη `ash' and concludes that the word is Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 2,611
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