ἕλκος

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁elk- (“wound, illness, ulcer”). Compare Latin ulcus (“ulcer”) and Sanskrit अर्शस् (árśas, “hemorrhoids”)).

ἕλκος • (hélkos) n (genitive ἕλκεος or ἕλκους); third declension

1. An open wound, an injury
2. A cut in a tree

• ἀνελκόομαι, ἀνελκοῦμαι (anelkóomai, anelkoûmai, “suppurate afresh”)
• ἀνελκής (anelkḗs, “free from ulceration”)
• ἀφελκόω, ἀφελκῶ (aphelkóō, aphelkô, “make an incision, tap”)
• δυσελκής (duselkḗs, “unfavourable for the healing of sores”)
• ἑλκαίνω (helkaínō, “fester”)
• ἑλκήεις (helkḗeis, “full of ulcers”)
• ἑλκόομαι (helkóomai)
• ἑλκοποιέω (helkopoiéō, “make wounds”)
• ἑλκοποιός (helkopoiós, “having power to wound”)
• ἑλκόω, ἑλκκῶ (helkóō, helkkô, “wound, lacerate”)
• ἑλκύδριον n (helkúdrion, “slight sore”)
• ἑλκώδης (helkṓdēs, “like a wound”)
• ἕλκωμα n (hélkōma, “sore, ulce”)
• ἑλκωματικός (helkōmatikós, “causing sores, ulcerating”)
• ἕλκωσις f (hélkōsis, “ulceration”)
• ἑλκωτικός (helkōtikós, “ἑλκωματικός”)
• ἐξελκόω (exelkóō, “cause sores in”)
• ἐξέλκωσις f (exélkōsis, “-causing of sores in”)
• ἐφελκόομαι (ephelkóomai, “break out into sores”)
• ἐφέλκωσις f (ephélkōsis, “ulceration”)
• καθελκόομαι (kathelkóomai, “break out into ulcers”)
• κακελκής (kakelkḗs, “suffering from malignant ulcer”)
• κακοελκής (kakoelkḗs, “badly festering”)
• πολυελκής (poluelkḗs, “with many sores”)
• προελκόομαι (proelkóomai, “be ulcerated before”)
• προεξελκόω (proexelkóō, “exulcerate before”)

Unrelated to the derived words from ἕλκω (hélkō, “I drag”).

• Greek: έλκος (élkos)

• ἕλκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἕλκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἕλκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN