κίγκλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κέγκλος (kénklos), κίχλος (kíkhlos)

Etymology

The variations show that the word is Pre-Greek, thus not related to Sanskrit चञ्चल (cañcala, “nimble, shaking, flickering”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kíŋ.klos/ → /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/ → /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kíŋ.klos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkiŋ.klos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/

Noun

κίγκλος • (kínklos) m (genitive κίγκλου); second declension

1. dipper (Cinclus cinclus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῐ́γκλος; τοῦ κῐ́γκλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῐ́γκλος ho kĭ́nklos	τὼ κῐ́γκλω tṑ kĭ́nklō	οἱ κῐ́γκλοι hoi kĭ́nkloi
Genitive	τοῦ κῐ́γκλου toû kĭ́nklou	τοῖν κῐ́γκλοιν toîn kĭ́nkloin	τῶν κῐ́γκλων tôn kĭ́nklōn
Dative	τῷ κῐ́γκλῳ tôi kĭ́nklōi	τοῖν κῐ́γκλοιν toîn kĭ́nkloin	τοῖς κῐ́γκλοις toîs kĭ́nklois
Accusative	τὸν κῐ́γκλον tòn kĭ́nklon	τὼ κῐ́γκλω tṑ kĭ́nklō	τοὺς κῐ́γκλους toùs kĭ́nklous
Vocative	κῐ́γκλε kĭ́nkle	κῐ́γκλω kĭ́nklō	κῐ́γκλοι kĭ́nkloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: Cinclus

Further reading

• “κίγκλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίγκλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κίγκλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN