πτέλας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A possible cognate would be πτελέα (pteléa, “elm”), but this leaves much unexplained. The connection with Lithuanian kiaũlė (“pig, swine”) and Sanskrit किरि (kiri, “boar, hog”) should also be rejected. The connection with πελιτνός (pelitnós) and πελιός (peliós) is arbitrary. The word may well be Pre-Greek, in view of the initial "πτ-".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pté.las/ → /ˈpte.las/ → /ˈpte.las/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pté.las/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpte.las/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpte.las/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpte.las/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpte.las/

Noun

πτέλας • (ptélas)

1. wild boar

References

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