ὕλη

See also: ύλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *swel-, *sel- (“firewood, wood, beam”). Compare to Latin silva, English sill, Latvian sile (“trough”).

Possibly related are the Mycenaean Greek names 𐀄𐀨𐀍 (u-ra-jo, “Hulaios”) and 𐀄𐀩𐀄 (u-re-u, “Hul(l)eus”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ῡ̔́λη • (hū́lē) f (genitive ῡ̔́λης); first declension

  1. wood, trees, forest
  2. timber, firewood
  3. stuff, material, substance
  4. matter

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Arabic: هَيُول‎ (hayūl)
  • → Christian Palestinian Aramaic: ܗܝܠܐ‎ (/hīlā/)
  • → Classical Syriac: ܗܘܠܐ‎ (hūlā), ܗܝܘܠܐ‎ (hiyūlā), ܗܝܠܐ‎ (hīlā)
  • → Coptic: ϩⲩⲗⲏ (hulē)
  • → English: -yl
  • → Greek: ύλη (ýli)
  • → Latin: hȳlē
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: -yl
  • → Old Armenian: հիւղէ (hiwłē)
  • → Middle English: hyle, yle, ylem
  • → Classical Persian: هیولی‎ (hayūlē, “element; matter; stuff; substance”)

References

  1. John Chadwick; Lydia Baumbach (1963), “The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary”, in Glotta : Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache, volume 41, issue 3/4, Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (GmbH & Co. KG), →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 252 of 157–271: “ὕλη”

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