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αὖλαξ

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Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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The word has been compared with Lithuanian vilkti (to drag, haul) and Proto-Slavic *velťi (to draw). Beekes claims that the variants point to a Pre-Greek origin, in particular a form *alʷ-ak-.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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αὖλᾰξ (aûlaxf (genitive αὔλᾰκος); third declension

  1. furrow

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: αύλακα (ávlaka), αυλάκι (avláki) (from a Koine diminutive αὐλάκιον (aulákion))
  • Latin: aulax

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄλοξ, -κος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 73–74
  2. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 6

Further reading

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