σκόροδον
Ancient Greek
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Alternative forms
[edit]- σκόρδον (skórdon)
Etymology
[edit]A Mediterranean substrate word of the shape *skʰodoro, found also in Old Armenian խստոր (xstor, “garlic”) and Albanian hudhër (“id”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skó.ro.don/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ro.don/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ro.ðon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ro.ðon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ro.ðon/
Noun
[edit]σκόροδον • (skórodon)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: σκόρδο (skórdo)
- → Russian: скорода́ (skorodá), ско́рда (skórda)
- → Ossetian: скъуда (sk’uda), скъода (sk’oda)
- → Coptic: ⲥⲕⲁⲣⲧⲱⲛ (skartōn)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σκόροδον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1358
Further reading
[edit]- “σκόροδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκόροδον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- garlic idem, page 354.
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 334