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, Aeolic Greek (), also known as Aeolian (), Lesbian or Lesbic dialect, is the set of

dialects of Ancient Greek Ancient Greek in classical antiquity, before the development of the common Koine Greek of the Hellenistic period, was divided into several varieties. Most of these varieties are known only from inscriptions, but a few of them, principally Aeolic ...

spoken mainly in

Boeotia Boeotia ( ), sometimes Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia ( el, Βοιωτία; modern: ; ancient: ), formerly known as Cadmeis, is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Central Greece. Its capital is Livadeia, and its lar ...

; in

Thessaly Thessaly ( el, Θεσσαλία, translit=Thessalía, ; ancient Thessalian: , ) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thes ...

; in the Aegean island of

Lesbos Lesbos or Lesvos ( el, Λέσβος, Lésvos ) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of with approximately of coastline, making it the third largest island in Greece. It is separated from Anatolia, Asia Minor ...

; and in the

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Aeolis Aeolis (; grc, Αἰολίς, Aiolís), or Aeolia (; grc, Αἰολία, Aiolía, link=no), was an area that comprised the west and northwestern region of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), mostly along the coast, and also several offshore islan ...

Anatolia Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

and adjoining islands. The Aeolic dialect shows many

archaism In language, an archaism (from the grc, ἀρχαϊκός, ''archaïkós'', 'old-fashioned, antiquated', ultimately , ''archaîos'', 'from the beginning, ancient') is a word, a sense of a word, or a style of speech or writing that belongs to a hi ...

s in comparison to the other Ancient Greek dialects (

Arcadocypriot Arcadocypriot, or southern Achaean, was an ancient Greek dialect spoken in Arcadia in the central Peloponnese and in Cyprus. Its resemblance to Mycenaean Greek, as it is known from the Linear B corpus, suggests that Arcadocypriot is its descend ...

Attic An attic (sometimes referred to as a '' loft'') is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building; an attic may also be called a ''sky parlor'' or a garret. Because attics fill the space between the ceiling of the ...

, Ionic, and

Doric Doric may refer to: * Doric, of or relating to the Dorians of ancient Greece ** Doric Greek, the dialects of the Dorians * Doric order, a style of ancient Greek architecture * Doric mode, a synonym of Dorian mode * Doric dialect (Scotland) * Doric ...

varieties), as well as many innovations. Aeolic Greek is widely known as the language of

Sappho Sappho (; el, Σαπφώ ''Sapphō'' ; Aeolic Greek ''Psápphō''; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her Greek lyric, lyric poetry, written to be sung while ...

and of

Alcaeus of Mytilene Alcaeus of Mytilene (; grc, Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μυτιληναῖος, ''Alkaios ho Mutilēnaios''; – BC) was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical ...

. Aeolic poetry, which is exemplified in the works of Sappho, mostly uses four classical meters known as the Aeolics:

Glyconic Glyconic (from Glycon, a Greek lyric poet) is a form of meter in classical Greek and Latin poetry. The glyconic line is the most basic form of Aeolic verse, and it is often combined with others. The basic shape (often abbreviated as gl) is as fol ...

(the most basic form of Aeolic line),

hendecasyllabic In poetry, a hendecasyllable (sometimes hendecasyllabic) is a line of eleven syllables. The term may refer to several different poetic meters, the older of which are quantitative and used chiefly in classical (Ancient Greek and Latin) poetry, and ...

verse,

Sapphic stanza The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, since the Middle Ages imitations of the form typically feature rhyme and accentual prosody. It is "the longest ...

, and

Alcaic stanza The Alcaic stanza is a Greek lyrical meter, an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC. The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' ...

(the latter two are respectively named for Sappho and Alcaeus). In

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

's ''Protagoras'',

Prodicus Prodicus of Ceos (; grc-gre, Πρόδικος ὁ Κεῖος, ''Pródikos ho Keios''; c. 465 BC – c. 395 BC) was a Greek philosopher, and part of the first generation of Sophists. He came to Athens as ambassador from Ceos, and became known as ...

labelled the Aeolic dialect of

Pittacus of Mytilene Pittacus (; grc-gre, Πιττακός; 640 – 568 BC) was an ancient Mytilenean military general and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Biography Pittacus was a native of Mytilene and son of Hyrradius. He became a Mytilenaean general who, with ...

as "

barbarian A barbarian (or savage) is someone who is perceived to be either Civilization, uncivilized or primitive. The designation is usually applied as a generalization based on a popular stereotype; barbarians can be members of any nation judged by som ...

" (''barbaros''), because of its difference from the Attic literary style: "He didn't know to distinguish the words correctly, being from Lesbos, and having been raised with a barbarian dialect".

Phonology

Consonants

Labiovelars

Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. No direct record of Proto-Indo-E ...

and

Proto-Greek The Proto-Greek language (also known as Proto-Hellenic) is the Indo-European language which was the last common ancestor of all varieties of Greek, including Mycenaean Greek, the subsequent ancient Greek dialects (i.e., Attic, Ionic, Ae ...

''*'' changed to Aeolic ''p'' everywhere. By contrast, PIE ''*'' changed to

/ Ionic,

, and

''t'' before ''e'' and ''i''. * PIE * → Lesbian ''písures'', Boeotian ''péttares'' ~ Attic téttares, Ionic ''tésseres'', Doric ''tétores'' "four" Similarly PIE/PGk ''*'' always became ''b'' and PIE ''*'' > PGk ''*'' always became ''ph'' (whereas in other dialects they became alternating ''b''/''d'' and ''ph''/''th'' before back/front vowels). Labiovelars were treated the same way in the

P-Celtic The Gallo-Brittonic languages, also known as the P-Celtic languages, are a subdivision of the Celtic languages of Ancient Gaul (both '' celtica'' and '' belgica'') and Celtic Britain, which share certain features. Besides common linguistic in ...

languages and the

Sabellic languages The Osco-Umbrian, Sabellic or Sabellian languages are an extinct group of Italic languages, the Indo-European languages that were spoken in Central and Southern Italy by the Osco-Umbrians before being replaced by Latin, as the power of Ancient Rom ...

Sonorant clusters

A Proto-Greek

consonant cluster In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel. In English, for example, the groups and are consonant clusters in the word ''splits''. In the education fie ...

with ''h'' (from Indo-European ) and a sonorant (''r, l, n, m, w, y'') changed to a double sonorant (''rr, ll, nn, mm, ww, yy'') in Lesbian and Thessalian (sub-dialects of Aeolic) by assimilation. In Attic/Ionic, Doric, and Boeotian Aeolic, the ''h'' assimilated to the vowel before the consonant cluster, causing the vowel to lengthen by

compensatory lengthening Compensatory lengthening in phonology and historical linguistics is the lengthening of a vowel sound that happens upon the loss of a following consonant, usually in the syllable coda, or of a vowel in an adjacent syllable. Lengthening triggered ...

. :

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''VsR'' or ''VRs'' → Attic/Ionic-Doric-Boeotian ''VVR''. :

''VsR'' or ''VRs'' → Lesbian-Thessalian ''VRR''. * PIE * → Proto-Greek ''*ehmi'' → Lesbian-Thessalian ''emmi'' ~ Attic/Ionic ''ēmi'' (= ) "I am"

Loss of h

Lesbian Aeolic lost initial ''h-'' (''

psilosis Psilosis () is the sound change in which Greek lost the consonant sound /h/ during antiquity. The term comes from the Greek ''psílōsis'' ("smoothing, thinning out") and is related to the name of the smooth breathing (ψιλή ''psilḗ''), ...

'' "stripping") from Proto-Indo-European s- or y-. By contrast, Ionic sometimes retains it, and Attic always retains it. * PIE * → Proto-Greek *''hāwélios'' → Lesbian ''āélios'', Ionic ''ēélios'' ~ Attic ''hēlios'' "sun"

Retention of w

In Thessalian and Boeotian (sub-dialects of Aeolic) and

, the Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Greek semi-vowel ''w'' (

digamma Digamma or wau (uppercase: Ϝ, lowercase: ϝ, numeral: ϛ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet. It originally stood for the sound but it has remained in use principally as a Greek numeral for 6. Whereas it was originally called ''waw' ...

) was retained at the beginning of a word. * PIE → Boeotian, Doric ''wépos'' ~ Attic-Ionic ''épos'' "word", "

epic Epic commonly refers to: * Epic poetry, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation * Epic film, a genre of film with heroic elements Epic or EPIC may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and medi ...

" (compare Latin ''vōx'' "voice")

Vowels

Long a

In Aeolic and Doric, Proto-Greek long ''ā'' remains. By contrast, in Attic, long ''ā'' changes to long ''ē'' in most cases; in Ionic, it changes everywhere. * PIE → Aeolic, Doric mātēr ~ Attic/Ionic ''mētēr'' "mother"

Compensatory lengthening

Compensatory lengthening of ''a,e,o'' in Lesbian gives ''ai,ei,oi'' (in Attic, it would be ''ā,ei,ou'') for example in the accusative plural of a and o stem nouns, or in many 3 Pl verb conjugations.

Boeotian

In Boeotian, the vowel-system was, in many cases, changed in a way reminiscent of the modern Greek pronunciation. * Attic/Ionic ~ Boeotian ~ Modern Greek * Attic/Ionic ~ Boeotian ~ Modern Greek * Attic/Ionic ~ Boeotian ~ Mediaeval Greek and Old Athenaean ~ Modern Greek

Accent

In Lesbian Aeolic, the accent of all words is recessive (''barytonesis''), as is typical only in the verbs of other dialects. * Attic/Ionic potamós ~ Lesbian pótamos "river"

Morphology

Contracted or vowel-stem verbs that are thematic in Attic/Ionic are often athematic (''-mi'') in Aeolic. * Ionic ''philéō'', Attic ''philô'' ~ Aeolic ''phílēmi'' "I love" Aeolic

athematic In Indo-European studies, a thematic vowel or theme vowel is the vowel or from ablaut placed before the ending of a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) word. Nouns, adjectives, and verbs in the Indo-European languages with this vowel are thematic, and tho ...

infinitive Infinitive (abbreviated ) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs. As with many linguistic concepts, there is not a single definition applicable to all languages. The word is deri ...

active Active may refer to: Music * ''Active'' (album), a 1992 album by Casiopea * Active Records, a record label Ships * ''Active'' (ship), several commercial ships by that name * HMS ''Active'', the name of various ships of the British Royal ...

ends in ''-men'' or (Lesbian) ''-menai''. ~ Attic/Ionic has ''-enai''. * Lesbian ''émmen, émmenai''; Thessalian, Boeotian ''eîmen'' ~ Attic/Ionic ''eînai'' (

spurious diphthong A spurious diphthong (or false diphthong) is an Ancient Greek vowel that is etymologically a long vowel but written exactly like a true diphthong (''ei, ou''). Origin A spurious diphthong has two origins: from compensatory lengthening of short ...

) "to be" In the Lesbian dialect this ending also extends to the thematic conjugation, where Attic/Ionic has ''-ein''. All three of these Aeolic endings occur in Homer. *

Homeric Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

''agémen'' Proto-Greek ''-ans'' and ''-ons'' → ''-ais'' and ''-ois'' ( first- and

second declension The second declension is a category of nouns in Latin and Greek with similar case formation. In particular, these nouns are thematic, with an original ''o'' in most of their forms. In Classical Latin, the short ''o'' of the nominative and accusativ ...

accusative plural) ~ Attic/Ionic -''ās'' and ''-ōs'' ( -ους). Dative plural ''-aisi'' and ''-oisi'' ~ Attic/Ionic ''-ais'' and ''-ois''. The participle has ''-ois'' and ''-ais'' for Attic ''-ōs'' ( -ους), ''-ās''.

Glossary

Below it is a list of several words in the Aeolian dialect, written in the Greek alphabet and next to a transcription in the Latin alphabet. Each word is followed by its meaning and compared to similar words in other ancient Greek dialects.

Aeolian

* ' "sun" (also Doric; Attic '' hēlios''; Cretan ''abelios''; Laconian ''bela''; Pamphylian babelios) (

*sawel-) * ''ágōnos'' "struggle" (Attic agōn; Elean dat. pl. agōnois for agōsi) * ' gifts sent by kin to Lesbian brides (

fr.) (compare

br>hedna, eedna
* ''Aiolíōnes'' "

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" (Attic ''Aioleîs'') (' "speak Aeolic, compose in the

Aeolian mode The Aeolian mode is a musical mode or, in modern usage, a diatonic scale also called the natural minor scale. On the white piano keys, it is the scale that starts with A. Its ascending interval form consists of a ''key note, whole step, half step ...

, trick out with false words"

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Fr.912 )
aioleō
vary, adorn, diversify
aiolos
quick-moving, glittering, shifty) *
aklades
' (unpruned vineyards) (Attic akladeutoi ampeloi) * ''akontion'' (part of troops) (Attic spear) ( Macedonian ''rhachis'', spine or backbone, anything ridged like the backbone) * -τος
amenēs
' -tos (Attic ὑμήν humēn) thin skin, membrane. *
amōnes
' (

ἀνεμώνες

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*
aoros
' (Attic ἄϋπνος ahypnos, without sleep) Μηθυμναῖοι *
arpys
' (

ἔρως

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, Love) attested in Crinagoras, ἁρπάζειν ''harpazein'' to snatch. Homeric
harpaleos
' attractive,devouring *
asphe
' to them (Atti
sphe
sphi) *
bakchoa
' (Attic βόθρος ''

bothros Bothros (Greek βόθρος, plural ''bothroi'') is the Ancient Greek word for "hole", "pit" or "trench". In contemporary use it can refer to a variety of holes or depressions found at ancient sites and referred to in literature, and has also been u ...

'' sacred dungeon, pit) *
balla
' threshold (Attic bēlos) (Doric balos) *
belphin
'

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(Attic delphis) and ''Belphoi''

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*
bama
' Doric also (Attic βῆμα

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walking, step) *
blēr
' incitement (Atti
delear
*
bradanizō
' brandish, shake off. (Cf.Elean bratana Common rhatane) *
bradinos
' slender, soft (Attic rhadinos) Sapph.90,104. *
braidion
' (

ῥᾴδιον rhaidion easy) *
brakein
' to understand (dysbrakanon imprehensible) *
brakos
' long robe, Sapph.70 Homeri
ῥάκος
ϝράκος rhakos wrakos *
briza
' root (Attic rhiza) *
brodon
' (

ῥόδον rhodon, rose) and

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metaphorically in Erotic Glossary. *
brodopachus
' with pink, rosy forearms (Attic rhodopechys) ( brodopachun Sappho) an
brododaktulos
with rosy fingers * ''brocheos'' or βρουκέων broukeon (Attic βραχύ brachy short) (Sapph.fr. 2,7) * ''drasein'' (Attic θύειν to sacrifice) *
dnophos
' darkness Ionic also (Attic zophos) (akin to knephas) * ''eide'' (

ὕλη, forest) (εἴδη Ionian also) * ''Ennesiades'' Lesbian

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*
epialtēs
' and ''epialēs'' nightmare (Atti
ephialtēs
(wiki

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) *
zadelon
' with holes in it, open (Attic diadelon obvious) ( Alcaeus 30 D 148P) *
imbēris
' eel (Attic enchelys) Μηθυμναῖοι *
iron
' holy (Attic hierón) (Doric hiarón) (Ionic hirón) * ''Issa'' old name of

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Cf.

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*
issasthai
' (

klerousthai to take sth by lot) *
kankulē
' (Attic ''kēkis'' wet,vapour,

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dyeing) *
kammarpsis
' dry Measure (Attic hemimedimnon, one half of a

medimnos A medimnos ( el, μέδιμνος, ''médimnos'', plural μέδιμνοι, ''médimnoi'') was an Ancient Greek unit of volume, which was generally used to measure dry food grain.In ancient Greece, measures of capacity varied depending on whether th ...

) *
karabides
' (Attic
graes
Μηθυμναῖοι *
kaualeon
' Hsch (Attic ''aithos'' fire, burning heat) (Cf.kaiō burn) *
klaides
' Doric also (Atti
kleides
bars, bolts, keys) * ''Mesostrophonia'' Lesbian festival * ''messui'' (

ἐν μέσῳ in the middle) *
molsos
' (Attic , fat) *
xennos
' foreigner, guest-friend, strange (Attic xenos) (Ionic xeinos) *
ximba
' (

ῥοιά rhoia pomegranate-tree) (Boeotia
sida
*
othmata
' (Attic ''ommata'' eyes) *
ón
' óna (Attic aná) upon, through, again (

also) *
passyrion
' (Attic passydia totally,all together,with the whole army) *
pedameivō
' (Attic metameivo exchange) (πεδέχω pedecho μετέχω metecho), pedoikos metoikosbr>peda
for

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*
pempe
' five (Attic pente, Pamphylian pede ) ( pempassein to count per five) (Attic ''pempe'' imp. of ''pempō'' send) *
Perrhamos
'

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( Alcaeus 74D,111P (it means also king) *
pésdos
' pedestrian,infantry) (Attic pezós) *
pesson
' plain (Attic pedion) *
pessyres
' four (Lesbian pisyres) (Boeotian pettares) (Attic tessares) (Doric tetores) *
saōmi
' save (Attic sōizō ) (Homeric saoō) *
siglai
' ear-rings (Attic enōtia, Laconian exōbadia) *
skiphos
' Attic

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sword (skiptō, given as etym. of skiphos and xiphos, Sch.Il.1.220; cf. skipei: nussei, it pricks,pierces) *
spóla
'(Attic stolē) equipment, garment (spaleis, the sent one, for staleis) *
strótos
' (Attic stratós) army *
syrx
' (Attic σάρξ flesh) (dative plural σύρκεσιν syrkesi Attic σαρξίν sarxin) *
tenekounti
' (Attic ''enoikounti'' dative singular of enoikōn inhabiting) *
tragais
' you break, grow rough and hoarse and smell like a goat *
tude
' tudai an
tuide
here) (Ionic tēde) *
usdos
' (Attic ozos

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, branch) *
phauophoros
' priestess (Attic ''hiereia'') (light-keeper) (Aeoli
phauō
for Homeric ''phaō'' shine) (Homeric ''phaos'' light, Attic ''phōs'' and ''phōtophoros'') *
phēria
' (Attic thēria beasts) *
Psapphō
', (Attic Sapphō)

Boeotian

*
aas
' ''aestēton'' tomorrow (Attic aurion) (Cf.Attic ēōs dawn) *
amillakas
' wine Theban (Attic oinos) *
anōdorkas
' a fish

*
baidumēn
' (Attic ''arotrian'' to plough) *
bana
' (
balara
') woman (Attic ''gunē''); , banēkes
battikes
women ( Attic gunaikes ) *
bastrax
' or bastax (Attic τράχηλος trachēlos neck) pl. bastraches *
bleerei
' (Attic οἰκτείρει he feels pity) Cf. eleairei *
gadou
' ( ''wadou'') (Attic ''hēdú'') (

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.17) *
Deus
' instead of

Zeus Zeus or , , ; grc, Δῐός, ''Diós'', label=Genitive case, genitive Aeolic Greek, Boeotian Aeolic and Doric Greek#Laconian, Laconian grc-dor, Δεύς, Deús ; grc, Δέος, ''Déos'', label=Genitive case, genitive el, Δίας, ''D� ...

. Attested also in Laconian and

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. *
empyria
'

divination Divination (from Latin ''divinare'', 'to foresee, to foretell, to predict, to prophesy') is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Used in various forms throughout histor ...

(Attic manteia) (Hsch. public oath,

Koine Koine Greek (; Koine el, ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, hē koinè diálektos, the common dialect; ), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-reg ...

ordeal by fire) *
zekeltides
'

gourds Gourds include the fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly ''Cucurbita'' and ''Lagenaria''. The term refers to a number of species and subspecies, many with hard shells, and some without. One of the earli ...

Amerias zakeltides ( Phrygian zelkia vegetables) * ''idephin'' sweet-voiced. Hsch.: (Atti
hēduphōnon
( Aeolic wad-, ad- ) * ''istake'' scythe (Attic drepanon) *
iugodromein
' (Attic , ekboēthein, and boēdromein, run to help) (
Iungios
Thessalian month) * ''iō'' an
hiōn
(Attic egō, I) (hiōnga iōga for egōge) *
Karaios
' Boeotian epithet for Zeus meaning tall,head. Boeotian eponym Karaidas * ''karoux'' (Attic kēryx herald) *
kriddemen
' (Attic gelan to laugh) (

Strattis Strattis ( grc, Στράττις) was an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy. According to the Suda, he flourished later than Callias Schoenion. Therefore, it is likely that his poetry was performed at the 92nd Olympiad, that is, 412 BC. Stratti ...

fr. 47) Cf. (Cf.Atti
krizō
creak,screech) *
korilla
' little girl (

''korasion'' from Attic ''korasis'' girl) (

Aetolian Aetolia ( el, Αἰτωλία, Aἰtōlía) is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania. Geography The Achelous River separates Aetolia ...

''korudion'') *
mēlatas
' (Attic poimen shepherd) (

homeric Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

mēlon
sheep) (Atti
mēlon
apple, Aeolic-Doric ''malon'') *
mnarion
' (Attic
kallyntron
' broom, brush) *
opisthotila
' (Attic sēpia

cuttlefish Cuttlefish or cuttles are marine molluscs of the order Sepiida. They belong to the class Cephalopoda which also includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses. Cuttlefish have a unique internal shell, the cuttlebone, which is used for control of ...

) (

. fr. 47,3) (squirts its liquor from behind) * ''opittomai'' (

br>opizomai
I care,respect) ( Laconian opiddomai) *
ophrygnai
' (Attic
ophryazei
' he winks raising the eyebrow, is haughty) *
seia
' I persecuted (Attic ''edioxa'') (Cf.Homeri
seuō
move quickly, chase) *
syoboiōtoi
' Hog-

ns (

Cratinus Cratinus ( grc-gre, Κρατῖνος; 519 BC – 422 BC) was an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy. Life Cratinus was victorious 27 known times, eight times at the City Dionysia, first probably in the mid-to-late 450s BCE (IG II2 2325. 50), ...

.310) *
tripeza
' (Attic trapeza,table)(fro
tetrapeza
four-footed) (''tripeza'' three-footed) (in Aeolic it would-be ''tripesda'') *
psōsmata
' Boeotian word acc.

Aristonymus Aristonymus of Athens ( el, Ἀριστώνυμος) was sent by Plato to reform the constitution of the Arcadians. Aristonymus was the father of Clitophon. Sources *Plato, '' Republic,'' 328b *Plutarch Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρ ...

Thessalian

*
abremēs
' (Attic ablepēs unworthy seeing, despicable (

Cypriotic Arcadocypriot, or southern Achaeans (tribe), Achaean, was an ancient Greek dialects, ancient Greek dialect spoken in Arcadia (ancient region), Arcadia in the central Peloponnese and in Cyprus. Its resemblance to Mycenaean Greek, as it is known f ...

also) (Hes. text *
agora
' (Attic limen port, harbour) (Hes. text *
alphinia
'

white poplar White poplar is a common name used to refer to several trees in the genus ''Populus'', including: * ''Populus alba'', native to Eurasia * ''Populus grandidentata'', bigtooth aspen * ''Populus tremuloides ''Populus tremuloides'' is a deciduous ...

(

*albho- 'white') (Attic leukē, PIE *leuk- 'bright, light') ( Macedonian aliza) *
Aploun
'

Apollo Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label= ...

(Attic Apollōn) (Doric, Pamphylian Apelon) * ''aspaleia'' safeness (Attic asphaleia) *
astralos
' (Attic ψάρ -ος psar

Starling Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae. The Sturnidae are named for the genus ''Sturnus'', which in turn comes from the Latin word for starling, ''sturnus''. Many Asian species, particularly the larger ones, ...

) *
bebukousthai
' to be

swollen Edema, also spelled oedema, and also known as fluid retention, dropsy, hydropsy and swelling, is the build-up of fluid in the body's tissue. Most commonly, the legs or arms are affected. Symptoms may include skin which feels tight, the area ma ...

(Homeric buktaon blowing) *
bousia
' (Attic γογγυλίδι gongylidi

turnip The turnip or white turnip (''Brassica rapa'' subsp. ''rapa'') is a root vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates worldwide for its white, fleshy taproot. The word ''turnip'' is a compound of ''turn'' as in turned/rounded on a lathe and ' ...

) * ''dámossos'' public (Attic dēmósios) opp. ''iddioûstikos'' privative (Attic idiōtikós) *
daratos
' Thessalian bread ( Macedonian dramis) (Athamanian dramix) (PIE *der- cut,split) *
despoina
' woman (Attic gunē, Doric guna) (fem. of

despotes Despot or ''despotes'' ( grc-gre, δεσπότης, despótēs, lord, master) was a senior Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Byzantine aristocracy and bureaucracy, court title that was bestowed on the sons or sons-in-law of reigning emperors, and initi ...

) *
enormos
' (

agora The agora (; grc, ἀγορά, romanized: ', meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states. It is the best representation of a city-state's response to accommodate the social and political order of t ...

, assembly, market and chōra) (Atti
enormeō
get in a harbour
hormos
bay, anchorage * ''ereas'' children (Hsch.Attic tekna) (Homeri
ernos
young sprout, scion) (Neo- Phrygian eiroi children) *
theanoustai
' (Attic xysters) *
itheiē
' (Attic hamaxitos chariot-road) (Homeric Ψ 580) (Attic ithys, eytheia straight line) * ''impsas'' past participle of impto (Attic ζεύξας zeuxas zeugnymi join together) (Ἴμψιος Impsios Ποσειδῶν ὁ ζύγιος

Poseidon Poseidon (; grc-gre, Ποσειδῶν) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.Burkert 1985pp. 136–139 In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a ch ...

Zygius on horses) *
kalaphos
' (Attic ἀσκάλαφος,

Ascalaphus The name Ascalaphus (; Ancient Greek: Ἀσκάλαφος ''Askalaphos'') is shared by two people in Greek mythology: * Ascalaphus, son of Acheron and Orphne. * Ascalaphus, son of Ares and Astyoche.Homer, ''Iliad'' 13.518 Notes Refere ...

a bird ( Magnesian) *
kapanē
' chariot (Attic apēnē) also, a helme
kapanikos
plenteous *
kis
' who, anyone (Attic tis) (Laconian tir) (Arcadocypriot sis) *
karpaia
' Thessalo-Macedonian mimic military dance (see also

Carpaea Carpaea or Karpaea ( grc, Καρπαία and Κάρπεα) among the Aenianians, Magnesians, and Macedonians was a kind of mimic military dance, performed by two persons; the one acting as a laborer, the other as a robber. It is described by Xen ...

)

br>karpalimos
swift (for foot) eager,ravenous. *
kyrrhos
' or kyrros sir, master (Attic

kyrios ''Kyrios'' or ''kurios'' ( grc, κύριος, kū́rios) is a Greek word which is usually translated as "lord" or "master". It is used in the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew scriptures about 7000 times, in particular translating the name ...

) * ''Maketoun'' 'Macedonian man' (Attic Makedōn) (Thessalian ''-oun'' suffix for Attic ''ōn'' in both nominative and genitive of participles,pronouns and nouns. *
mattuē
' a meat-dessert of Macedonian or Thessalian origin (Athenaeus) ( Macedonian ''mattuēs'' a kind of bird) * ''nealeis'' new-comers, newly caught ones (Cf
nealeisneēludes
* Magnesia —

Demetrias Demetrias ( grc, Δημητριάς) was a Greek city in Magnesia in ancient Thessaly (east central Greece), situated at the head of the Pagasaean Gulf, near the modern city of Volos. History It was founded in 294 BCE by Demetrius Polior ...

— late 2nd century B

/ref> ''nebeuō'' pray ( Macedonian neuō) (Attic euchomai, neuō wink) * ''onala'', ''onalouma'' (Atti
analōma
expense cost) ( ''on-'' in the place of Attic prefix wiktionary:ἀνά, ana-, ''ongrapsantas'' SEG 27:202 *''
Pétthalos
and (Boeotian Phéttalos) (Attic Thettalós) ( Ionic,

Thessalós) 'Thesalian man' ( ''Petthalia'' Thessalia) (''Petthaloi'' Thessalians) (Koine ''thessalisti'' the thessalian way) ( Attic
entethettalizomai
' become a Thessalian, i.e. wear the large Thessalian cloak ( Thettalika ptera ''feathers'' ),

Eupolis Eupolis ( grc-gre, Εὔπολις; c. 446c. 411 BC) was an Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, who flourished during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Biography Nothing whatsoever is known of his personal history. His father was named Sosipolis. ...

.201. ) *
tageuō
' to be tagos

archon ''Archon'' ( gr, ἄρχων, árchōn, plural: ἄρχοντες, ''árchontes'') is a Greek word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem αρχ-, mean ...

in Thessaly

Phonology

Consonants

Labiovelars

Sonorant clusters

Loss of h

Retention of w

Vowels

Long a

Compensatory lengthening

Boeotian

Accent

Morphology

Glossary

Aeolian

Boeotian

Thessalian

See also

References

Further reading