σχέλινος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Furnée, from Pre-Greek and related to γέλενος (gélenos, “asphodel, daffodil”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skʰé.li.nos/ → /ˈsçe.li.nos/ → /ˈsçe.li.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skʰé.li.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈskʰe.li.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsçe.li.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsçe.li.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsçe.li.nos/

Noun

σχέλινος • (skhélinos)

1. Hesychius gives the definition as: ἀγρία κυπάρισσος (agría kupárissos, literally “wild cypress”).

Further reading

• “σχέλινος”, 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: σ