ὀμίχλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰleh₂. Cognate with Lithuanian miglà (mist, haze), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, cloud, gloomy weather) and Old Armenian մէգ (mēg, mist).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ὀμῐ́χλη (omíkhlē) f (genitive ὀμῐ́χλης); first declension

  1. mist, fog

Inflection

Descendants

References

  • ὀμίχλη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὀμίχλη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ὀμίχλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ὀμίχλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • cloud idem, page 139.
    • fog idem, page 331.
    • haze idem, page 389.
    • mist idem, page 535.
  • 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, page 1077
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