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τάρανδος

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Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unknown. Isebaert suggests the term is borrowed from Scythian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (horn),[1][2] however the expected outcome in contemporary Proto-Sarmatian would likely be *sarand(ar), not **θaran-tara-, as he reconstructs. Alternatively borrowed from Proto-Finno-Ugric *šardo, *šardō, *šordō.[3] There doesn't appear to be any link to Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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τάρανδος (tárandosm (genitive τᾰράνδου); second declension

  1. reindeer

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Greek: τάρανδος (tárandos)
  • Latin: tarandus

References

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  1. ^ Isebaert, Lambert (1982) “Encore grec τάρανδ(ρ)ος “renne””, in Glotta[1] (in French), volume 60, pages 62–65
  2. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τάρανδος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1451
  3. ^ More forms at Toivonen, Yrjö Henrik (1937) “Zur ugrischen Etymologie. II”, in Ungarische Jahrbücher (in German), volume 17, page 188

Further reading

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Greek

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek τάρανδος (tárandos).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtaɾanðos/
  • Hyphenation: τά‧ραν‧δος

Noun

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τάρανδος (tárandosm (plural τάρανδοι)

  1. reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)

Declension

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Declension of τάρανδος
singular plural
nominative τάρανδος (tárandos) τάρανδοι (tárandoi)
genitive τάρανδου (tárandou)
ταράνδου (tarándou)
τάρανδων (tárandon)
ταράνδων (tarándon)
accusative τάρανδο (tárando) τάρανδους (tárandous)
ταράνδους (tarándous)
vocative τάρανδε (tárande) τάρανδοι (tárandoi)

Second forms are formal. 

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Further reading

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