κῆλον
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]It has been compared with Sanskrit शर्या (śaryā, “cane, arrow, missile”), शल्य (śalya, “spear, javelin”) and further Middle Irish cail (“spear”), Old Norse hali (“tail”). However, all these words go back to a root with a short vowel, as opposed to this word, with a long one. Connection with κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood, timber”) is rejected by Frisk and DELG.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛ̂ː.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈke̝.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈci.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈci.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.lon/
Noun
[edit]κῆλον • (kêlon) n (genitive κήλου); second declension
- (in the plural) shafts of an arrow, arrows, projectiles
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κῆλον tò kêlon |
τὼ κήλω tṑ kḗlō |
τᾰ̀ κῆλᾰ tà kêla | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κήλου toû kḗlou |
τοῖν κήλοιν toîn kḗloin |
τῶν κήλων tôn kḗlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κήλῳ tôi kḗlōi |
τοῖν κήλοιν toîn kḗloin |
τοῖς κήλοις toîs kḗlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κῆλον tò kêlon |
τὼ κήλω tṑ kḗlō |
τᾰ̀ κῆλᾰ tà kêla | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῆλον kêlon |
κήλω kḗlō |
κῆλᾰ kêla | ||||||||||
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Further reading
[edit]- “κῆλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κῆλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κῆλον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κῆλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κῆλον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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