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ἀλάβης

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Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unclear. Perhaps from Coptic ⲗⲉⲓϥⲓ (leifi, fish of the Nile). However, Furnée connects this word with similar names for fish, like ἔλλοψ (éllops) and ἀλλοπίᾱς (allopíās) and concludes that it is a Pre-Greek word.

Demotic lbs (fish of the Nile), and its successor Coptic ⲗⲁⲃⲏⲥ (labēs), is certainly a reborrowing from Greek.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ἀλάβης (alábēsf (genitive ἀλάβητος); third declension

  1. A kind of fish that lives in the Nile (possibly Labeo niloticus)

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Demotic: lbs

References

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  1. ^ Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 75

Further reading

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