σικύα
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]For plant names in -ύα, compare οἰσύα (oisúa), ὀστρύα (ostrúa). The Hesychius gloss σεκούα (sekoúa), as well as the toponym Σικυών (Sikuṓn)/Σεκυών (Sekuṓn), shows an alternation σικ-/σεκ-, which cannot be explained from an Indo-European point of view, but rather from substrate/Pre-Greek. Together with the forms συκύα (sukúa), κύκυον (kúkuon) and κυκύϊζα (kukúïza, “sweet round gourd”), as well as Latin cucumis (“cucumber”), Old Armenian սեխ (sex, “muskmelon”) and Proto-Slavic *tyky (“pumpkin”) it seems that we are dealing with a Wanderwort that might also have Semitic and Kartvelian cognates, like Arabic قِثَّاء (qiṯṯāʔ, “Cucumis”), Akkadian 𒄾 (qiššû, “cucumber”), Hebrew קשוא (qiššūʾ, “Armenian cucumber”), Laz შუკა (şuǩa, “cucumber; melon”), Mingrelian შინკა (šinḳa, “melon”).
Noun
[edit]σῐκῠ́ᾱ • (sĭkŭ́ā) f (genitive σῐκῠ́ᾱς); first declension
- bottle gourd (Benincasa hispida, syn. Lagenaria vulgaris)
- round gourd (Cucurbita maxima)
- gourd used as a calabash
- cupping-instrument, because it was shaped like a gourd
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σῐκῠ́ᾱ hē sĭkŭ́ā |
τὼ σῐκῠ́ᾱ tṑ sĭkŭ́ā |
αἱ σῐκῠ́αι hai sĭkŭ́ai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σῐκῠ́ᾱς tês sĭkŭ́ās |
τοῖν σῐκῠ́αιν toîn sĭkŭ́ain |
τῶν σῐκῠῶν tôn sĭkŭôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σῐκῠ́ᾳ têi sĭkŭ́āi |
τοῖν σῐκῠ́αιν toîn sĭkŭ́ain |
ταῖς σῐκῠ́αις taîs sĭkŭ́ais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σῐκῠ́ᾱν tḕn sĭkŭ́ān |
τὼ σῐκῠ́ᾱ tṑ sĭkŭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς σῐκῠ́ᾱς tā̀s sĭkŭ́ās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῐκῠ́ᾱ sĭkŭ́ā |
σῐκῠ́ᾱ sĭkŭ́ā |
σῐκῠ́αι sĭkŭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- σῐκῠᾰ́ζω (sĭkŭắzō)
- σῐκῠ́ᾰσῐς (sĭkŭ́ăsĭs)
- σῐκῠᾰσμός (sĭkŭăsmós)
- σῐκῠᾰστήρῐον (sĭkŭăstḗrĭon)
Further reading
[edit]- “σικύα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σικύα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 574
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1330
- Ancient Greek terms derived from substrate languages
- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- grc:Gourd family plants
- grc:Tools