αυλός
Greek (Cypriot)
/avˈlos/
noun
Definitions
- (musical instruments) pipe, flute, fife any wind instrument played by blowing
- (musical instruments) floghera or souravli Greek folk instruments
- bellows' pipe used by blacksmith
- (medicine) the tubular part of any hollow organ eg intestines.
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek αὐλός (pipe, flute, tube, oblong, hollow, hollow tube) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (tube, hole).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂ewlos
Gloss
tube, hole
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hydraulic English
- alvus Latin
- auloedus Latin
- auledo Italian
- idraulico Italian
- jol Dutch, Flemish
- гидравлика Russian
- αὐλέω Ancient Greek
- αὐλωπίας Ancient Greek
- αὐλός Ancient Greek
- αὐλῳδός Ancient Greek
- τυμβαύλης Ancient Greek
- χοραύλης Ancient Greek
- ὕδραυλις Ancient Greek
- *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂ewlos Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- гидравлика Kazakh
- jolle Middle Low German
- aulas Lithuanian
- *aul- Proto-Balto-Slavic