φορκόν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée connects Φόρκυς (Phórkus), Πόρκος (Pórkos) and φαρκίς (pharkís, “wrinkle”). According to Beekes, definitely Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰor.kón/ → /ɸorˈkon/ → /forˈkon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰor.kón/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰorˈkon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸorˈkon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /forˈkon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /forˈkon/

Adjective

φορκόν • (phorkón)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: λευκόν (leukón, “white”), πολιόν (polión, “grey”), ῥυσόν (rhusón, “wrinkled”).

References

• “φορκόν”, 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: φ