Compositional etymology designed to account for the suffix: βάλλω accounts for βελ- (as the etymon of βέλος, itself etymon of βελόνη), and ὅλη accounts for -ονη, implying a change of [l] into [n] : *βελόλη > βελόνη. This etymology elaborates on the derivational etymology βελόνη / βάλλω. Ὅλος was suggested because a projectile is thrown but does not go through the target, whereas the needle goes entirely through the material. The objection that the needle is not thrown is also valid for the basic etymology from βάλλω from which this one evolved, but semantic properties of the words were often loose in Greek etymology