Καύκασος
Ancient Greek
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Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to elevate; height”),[1] or borrowed from Iranian, compare Middle Persian *Kaf kōf (“Mount Qaf, Caucasus mountains”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kǎu̯.ka.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkaʍ.ka.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkaɸ.ka.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkaf.ka.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkaf.ka.sos/
Proper noun
[edit]Καύκᾰσος • (Kaúkăsos) m (genitive Καυκᾰ́σου); second declension
Inflection
[edit]| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Καύκᾰσος ho Kaúkăsos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Καυκᾰ́σου toû Kaukắsou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Καυκᾰ́σῳ tôi Kaukắsōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Καύκᾰσον tòn Kaúkăson | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Καύκᾰσε Kaúkăse | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Derived terms
[edit]- Καυκᾰ́σῐον (Kaukắsĭon)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: Καύκασος (Káfkasos)
- → Arabic: القَوْقَاز (al-qawqāz)
- → Old Armenian: Կովկաս (Kovkas), Կաւկաս (Kawkas)
- Armenian: Կովկաս (Kovkas)
- → Estonian: Kaukaasia
- → Georgian: კავკასია (ḳavḳasia)
- Greek: Καύκασος (Káfkasos)
- → Hebrew: קווקז (Kavkáz, Qawqáz)
- → Latin: Caucasus (see there for further descendants)
- → Russian: Кавка́з (Kavkáz)
- → Turkish: Kafkasya
References
[edit]- ^ Solmsen, Felix (1909) Beiträge zur griechischen Wortforschung (in German), volume I, Strassburg: Verlag von Karl J. Trübner, →ISBN, page 88
- ^ Lieu, Samuel N. C. (2012) “Caucasus”, in Places and peoples in Central Asia and in the Graeco-Roman Near East: A multilingual gazetteer compiled for the Serica Project from select Pre-Islamic sources[1], page 8b
Further reading
[edit]- “Καύκασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Καύκασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,005
Greek
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Καύκασος • (Káfkasos)
Inflection
[edit]| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Καύκασος (Káfkasos) |
| genitive | Καυκάσου (Kafkásou) |
| accusative | Καύκασο (Káfkaso) |
| vocative | Καύκασε (Káfkase) |
Derived terms
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms borrowed from Iranian languages
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Iranian languages
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension proper nouns
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- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
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- Greek nouns declining like 'Αύγουστος'