ὀλϜαί

οὐλαί, [dialect] Att. [full] ὀλαί, αἱ,

A barley-corns, barley-groats, which were sprinkled on the head of the victim before the sacrifice (cf. Sch.Ar. Eq. 1164), Od.3.441, cf. Hdt.1.132, Ar.Eq. 1167, Pax 948, 960, Thphr. Char.10.13 ( ὀλ-, v.l. οὐλ-), SIG1024.18 (Myconos, iii/ii B. C.);

οὐλαὶ κριθῶν Hdt.1.160

. (The variation οὐλαί: ὀλαί points to orig. Ολϝαί, cf. ὀλβάχνιον: the Arc. form

ὀλοαί IG5(2).514.15

(Lycosura, ii B. C.) prob. comes from a bye-form Ολοϝαί. Perh. cogn. with ἀλέω (A), ἔλυμος III, ὄλυρα.)

Grammatical information: f. pl.

Meaning: `(unmealed) barley corns, roasted and sprinkled between the horns of the sacrificial animal' (Ion. since γ 441); Lat. mola salsa (on the meaning Buttmann Lexil. 1, 191ff.).

Other forms: ὀλαί (Att.), ὀλοαί (Arc. II^a). Cf. ὄλπα χὸνδρου τις ἕψησις.... ἔδεσμά τι H.

Compounds: As 1. member in οὑλο-χύτας acc. pl. f. `id.' (Hom.); οὑλό-χυτα τὰ κατάργματα H.; comp. of οὑλαί and χέω (s.v.) with το-suffix (cf. e.g. ἀκμό-θε-τον); οὑλο-χύτας followed in gender οὑλαι (diff. Schwyzer 439: for *οὑλὰς χυτάς); from this οὑλοχυτ-έομαι `to besprinkle with οὑ.' (Thphr. ap. Porph.). Also οὑλο-χόϊον (- χοεῖον?) ἀγγεῖον, εἰς ὅ αἱ ὀλαὶ ἐμβάλλονται πρὸς ἀπαρχὰς τῶν θυσιῶν H.; as if from *οὑλο-χόος, - χοέω.

Derivatives: ( ὀλβ-άχνιον (with ὀλβ- = ὀλϜ-) n. `basket for the ὀλαί' (EM 257, 53 [Syracus.]; also ὀλβάχιον κανοῦν. Δεινόλοχος H.; ὀλβακήϊα `id.' (Dor. after H. s. εὔπλουτον κανοῦν). See s.v. ὀλαγμεύειν ὀλὰς βάλλειν Phot. with ὀλαιμεύς ὁ (cod. τὸ) τὰς ὀλὰς βάλλων H.; on γ οὑλαί ι s.v. Blumenthal Hesychst. 22. S.s.v. λαίγματα; these words do not belong to οὐλαί as then the suffix α + velar cannot be explained.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: As in Arc. ὀλοαί ο can stand for F (Brugmann-Thumb 44; cf. δοάν = δϜάν s. δήν), we get a basic ὀλϜαί. -- Technical word without convincing connection. The comparison with ὄλυραι and ἔλυμος `barley' (s.v.) is quite hypothetic. Even more doubtful combinations in Specht Ursprung 114, 127 a. 146. - Prob. Pre-Greek; cf. ὄλπα in H..

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