ῥέγκω
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ῥέγχω (rhénkhō)
Etymology
[edit]The entry by Beekes in his Etymological Dictionary of Greek reads (in paraphrase):
"The etymon is clearly onomatopoeic. Although the variation is certainly due in part to the onomatopoeic character of the word, many of the alternations would also fit a Pre-Greek origin. Similar forms in Celtic, like Old Irish srennaid (“to snore”), may derive from Proto-Indo-European *sregʰ- (“to snore”)."
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥éŋ.kɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈreŋ.ko/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈreŋ.ɡo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈreŋ.ɡo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈreŋ.ɡo/
Verb
[edit]ῥέγκω • (rhénkō)
Inflection
[edit] Present: ῥέγκω, ῥέγκομαι
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ῥέγκω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥέγκω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥέγκω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ῥέγκω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1278