ὄλπα χόνδρου τις ἕψησις

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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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `prosperity, blessed state, wealth, happiness' (Il.; on the meaning Radermacher Gnomon 14, 296).

Compounds: Compp., e.g. ὀλβο-δότης, Dor. - δότας m., - δότειρα f. `giver of wealth' (E. in lyr., hell.) ἄν-ολβος `without prosperity, unhappy' (Orac. ap. Hdt. 1, 85, trag.).

Derivatives: 1. ὄλβιος `blessed, having goods, happy' (Il.), voc. ὀλβιό-δ᾽αιμον (Γ 182; Schwyzer 105 w. lit.), superlative ὄλβιστος (hell.; Seiler Steigerungsformen 104 f.); 2. ὀλβήεις `id.' (Man.); 3. ὀλβ-ία f. = ὄλβος (Phot.); 4. ὀλβίζω `to bless, to bless oneself' (trag.; ἐπ- ὄλβος Nonn.) with ὀλβιστήρ, - ῆρος `blesser' (late).

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

Etymology: Unexplained. Various hypotheses by Prellwitz s. v., Bezzenberger BB 5, 171 f., Pisani KZ 61, 180ff., Grošelj Živa Ant. 2, 213, Machek Listy filol. 72, 71 f. - Furnée 155 connects ὄλπα χόνδρου τις ἕψησις. --- ἔδεσμά τι. η ὄλβος H.; if the word is cognate, it must be Pre-Greek, which is at all a good possibility.

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