On the etymology of Greek ἅλις ‘in abundance, in throngs; enough’

Giulio Imberciadori

doi:10.5209/cfcg.83523

On the etymology of Greek ἅλις ‘in abundance, in throngs; enough’

Giulio Imberciadori Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Abstract

Building on a so far neglected root-etymology by Boisacq (1923), the present paper proposes to analyze the Greek adverb ἅλις ‘in abundance, in throngs; enough’ (~ Hesychian gloss γάλι ‘enough’) as the lexicalized locative singular of a mobile root noun PIE *su̯élH- / *su̯l̥H-́ ‘swelling, bulging’ ⇒ ‘heap’, belonging to the PIE root *su̯elH- ‘to swell’.

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Imberciadori G. (2023). On the etymology of Greek ἅλις ‘in abundance, in throngs; enough’. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, 33, 27-37. https://doi.org/10.5209/cfcg.83523

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