κέρκα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The word hardly belongs to κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”), as per Frisk. The word is rather Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈker.ka/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcer.ka/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcer.ka/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcer.ka/
Noun
κέρκα • (kérka)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: ἀκρίς (akrís, “grasshopper, locust”).
References
- “κέρκα”, 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: κ