COMPOUND: ἀμφιέλισσα, -ης
CATEGORIZATION: A [P+V+Suf]
MEANING: ‘curved at both ends (or on both sides), or wheeling either way, handy’
ETYMOLOGY: ἀμφί ‘on both sides’ + verbal root ἑλίσσ- (ἑλίσσω) ‘turn round or about’ + adj. suf. -α (only feminine)
OCCURRENCE: Il. II, 165, 181; XIII, 174; XV, 549; XVII, 612; XVIII, 260; Od. VII, 9, 252; IX, 64; X, 91, 156; XII, 368; XIV, 258; XV, 283; XVII, 427; XXI, 390
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: gen. f. sg., nom. f. pl., acc. f. pl.
HEADEDNESS: exocentric
CLASSIFICATION: determinative – karmadhāraya
NOTES: in Hom. always of ships