βαύκαλις

Ancient Greek

Probably of Afroasiatic origin,^[1]^[2] in particular, from Egyptian.^[3] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What is the Egyptian comparandum?”)

βαύκᾰλῐς • (baúkalis) f (genitive βαυκάλῐδος); third declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βαύκᾰλῐς hē baúkalis	τὼ βαυκᾰ́λῐδε tṑ baukálide	αἱ βαυκᾰ́λῐδες hai baukálides
Genitive	τῆς βαυκᾰ́λῐδος tês baukálidos	τοῖν βαυκᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn baukalídoin	τῶν βαυκᾰλῐ́δων tôn baukalídōn
Dative	τῇ βαυκᾰ́λῐδῐ têi baukálidi	τοῖν βαυκᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn baukalídoin	ταῖς βαυκᾰ́λῐσῐ / βαυκᾰ́λῐσῐν taîs baukálisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν βαυκᾰ́λῐδᾰ tḕn baukálida	τὼ βαυκᾰ́λῐδε tṑ baukálide	τᾱ̀ς βαυκᾰ́λῐδᾰς tā̀s baukálidas
Vocative	βαύκᾰλῐς baúkalis	βαυκᾰ́λῐδε baukálide	βαυκᾰ́λῐδες baukálides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

^ Varia Africana. (1918). United States: African Department of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, p. 303
^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βαυκάλιον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 207