- στελεά
- στελεάGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `shaft of an axe, hack, hammer etc.' (-ειή φ 422 and -εά Aen. Tact. `cavity for the shaft' after Bérard REGr. 68, 8f. and Pocock AmJPh 82, 346ff. with Eust., H. and EM).Other forms: -εή (A. R.), στειλειή (φ 422; v.l. Nic. Th. 387); -εόν (Aen. Tact., Babr.), στειλειόν (ε 236) n.; -εός and -ειός (Att. inscr.) m.; -εός or -εόν (hell. a. late); στειλεός (Hp. with vv. ll.), στειλειός (Aesop.), gen. -ειοῦ (Nic. Th. 387 as v. l.)Derivatives: στειλει-άριον (Eust.) and the denom. ptc. ἐστελεωμένος `provided with a shaft' (AP). -- Beside it στέλεχος n. (m.) `the end of the stem at the root of a tree, stump, log, stem, branch' (Pi., IA.; on the eaning Strömberg Theophrastea 95ff.). Some compp., e.g. πολυ-στελέχ-ης (Thphr.), -ος (AP) `with many stems' (cf. Strömberg 103 f.). From this στελέχ-ια πρέμ\<ν\>ια H., -ώδης `stem-like' (Thphr., Dsc.), -ιαῖος `serving as a stem' (Gal.), -ηδόν `according to the kind of stem' (A. R. 1, 1004 as v. l. for στοιχηδόν).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (V)Etymology: On the formation: στελ-εά like δωρ-εά, γεν-εά, -εός, -εόν as κολ-εός, -εόν, θυρ-εός; στειλ-ειή as ἀρ-ειή, νευρ-ειή (στειλ- metr. lengthening(?); cf. Schwyzer 469 n. 3 w. lit., Risch 120f., Chantraine Form. 51 a. 91. With στέλε-χος cf. τέμα-χος, σέλα-χος a.o. (Schwyzer 496, Chantraine 403). Both στελεά, -εός, -εόν and στέλεχος are based on an unknown, prob. nominal basis, perh. *στέλος n. (Schulze Q. 175), which fits unproblem. to Arm. steɫn, pl. steɫun-k` `stem, shaft, stalk, twig' and to Germ. words like OE stela m. `stalk of a plant', Norw. stjøl `stalk'; further s. στέλλω (with στόλος). Cf. also στήλη. -- The variation shows that the word is Pre-Greek, with a \> ε(ι) before palatal ly. Was the word *stalyaya?Page in Frisk: 2,785-786
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.