χάλις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelis; cognate with Sanskrit हाला (hālā, “brandy”).

Alternatively, from Pre-Greek.[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰá.lis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰa.lis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.lis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.lis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.lis/

Noun

χᾰ́λῐς • (khális) m (genitive χᾰ́λῐος); third declension

pure wine

References

Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 1610–1611

Further reading

χάλις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
χάλις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
χάλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

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