Γελλώ

Ancient Greek[edit]

Perhaps from Akkadian 𒂵𒀠𒇻𒌑 (ga-al-lu-ú, gallû), 𒋼𒇲 (GAL₅.LÁ, gallû, “Gallu”),^[1]^[2] a word from the Assyro-Babylonian religion perhaps related to ghoul,^[3] as a demonic revenant who brings sickness and death,^[4] from Sumerian 𒋼𒇲 (GAL₅.LÁ, galla, “demon; constable”).^[1]

Γελλώ • (Gellṓ) f (genitive Γελλοῦς); third declension

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Γελλώ hē Gellṓ
Genitive	τῆς Γελλοῦς tês Gelloûs
Dative	τῇ Γελλοῖ têi Gelloî
Accusative	τὴν Γελλώ tḕn Gellṓ
Vocative	Γελλοῖ Gelloî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “gallû”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011, pages 18-19
^ Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Harvard University Press, 1992), 82-87.
^ A.A. Barb, "Antaura. The Mermaid and the Devil's Grandmother: A Lecture," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 29 (1966), p. 5.
^ M.L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, reprinted 2003), 58-59 and 111.
On gallû, see also W.H.Ph. Römer, "The Religion of Ancient Mesopotamia," in Historia Religionum: Religions of the Past (Brill, 1969), 182