ἀγκάλη

From a suffixed derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“to curve, bend”), whence also ἄγκος (ánkos, “bend”), ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “curved, bent”).^[1]

ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λη • (ănkắlē) f (genitive ᾰ̓γκᾰ́λης); first declension

1. the bent arm
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 723
   • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 481
   • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 351
   • c. 370 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.50
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 289
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 464
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 761
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1250
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 962
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 747
   • c. 600 BCE – 300 BCE, Corinna, Collected Works 19
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.61
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Timocles, Collected Works 7.4
2. (figuratively) anything closely enfolding
   • 680 BCE – 645 BCE, Archilochus, Collected Works 23
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1019
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 587
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1378
   • 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Nausicrates, Collected Works 1.3
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 941

• Greek: αγκάλη (agkáli)

• “ἀγκάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀγκάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀγκάλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγκάλη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• G43 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἀγκάλη, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011