πέλεκκον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πέλεκκος (pélekkos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin due to the presence of a geminate -κκ- (-kk-). Furnée compares the word with πέλεκυς (pélekus, “battle axe”) and βέλεκκος (bélekkos, “kind of pulse”). However, likely ultimately from Akkadian 𒁄 (pilakku, pilaqqu, “wooden handle”), from Sumerian 𒁄 (balag, “wooden handle”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pé.lek.kon/ → /ˈpe.le.kon/ → /ˈpe.le.kon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.lek.kon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.lek.kon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.le.kon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.le.kon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.le.kon/

Noun

πέλεκκον • (pélekkon) n (genitive πελέκκου); second declension

1. handle of an axe

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πέλεκκον; τοῦ πελέκκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέλεκκον tò pélekkon	τὼ πελέκκω tṑ pelékkō	τᾰ̀ πέλεκκᾰ tằ pélekkă
Genitive	τοῦ πελέκκου toû pelékkou	τοῖν πελέκκοιν toîn pelékkoin	τῶν πελέκκων tôn pelékkōn
Dative	τῷ πελέκκῳ tôi pelékkōi	τοῖν πελέκκοιν toîn pelékkoin	τοῖς πελέκκοις toîs pelékkois
Accusative	τὸ πέλεκκον tò pélekkon	τὼ πελέκκω tṑ pelékkō	τᾰ̀ πέλεκκᾰ tằ pélekkă
Vocative	πέλεκκον pélekkon	πελέκκω pelékkō	πέλεκκᾰ pélekkă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἡμιπέλεκκον (hēmipélekkon)

Further reading

• “πέλεκκον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πέλεκκον 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