ἔλαιον
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ἐλεοῖσι
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
eleos
English translation (word)
kitchen table
Transliteration (Etymon)
elaion
English translation (etymon)
olive oil
Source
idem
Ref.
A Schol. Il.9.215b
Ed.
H. Erbse, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (scholia vetera), vols. 1-5, 7, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1:1969; 2:1971; 3:1974; 4:1975; 5:1977; 7:1988
Quotation
εἰν ἐλεοῖσιν: ἐπιμήκεσι τραπεζίοις | ἤτοι μαγειρικοῖς. δασύνεται δέ· ἀπὸ γὰρ τοῦ ἑλεῖν. ἢ ὅτι ἐξ ἑλείων ῥάβδων ἦσαν πεπλεγμέναι. | ἢ ἐπεὶ ἐλιπαίνετο ἐκ τῆς πιμελῆς
Translation (En)
Ein eleoisin: long tables, that is, kitchen tables. With a rough breathing, for it comes from Helen "to seize", or because they were made of canes growing in the marshes. Or because it was shining from fat
Parallels
Etym. Gudianum Additamenta, epsilon, p. 453 (Ἐλεοί· ἢ οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς πιμελῆς ἠλαιωμένοι ἢ οἱ ἐξ ἑλείων ξύλων κατεσκευασμένοι)
Modern etymology
Unknown (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
No
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational descriptive etymology. Only the last part of the scholion is interesting here. It comes from the exegetical scholia. The real etymon is ἔλαιον "oil", which here is not explicit, but substituted by a synonym πιμέλη "fat" (elliptic etymology). The lemma is etymologized by its physical aspect