κίγκλος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κέγκλος (kénklos), κίχλος (kíkhlos)
Etymology
The variations show that the word is Pre-Greek, thus not related to Sanskrit चञ्चल (cañcala, “nimble, shaking, flickering”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kíŋ.klos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkiŋ.klos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/
Noun
κίγκλος • (kínklos) m (genitive κίγκλου); second declension
- dabchick (Cinclus cinclus)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κῐ́γκλος; τοῦ κῐ́γκλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κῐ́γκλος ho kínklos | τὼ κῐ́γκλω tṑ kínklō | οἱ κῐ́γκλοι hoi kínkloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῐ́γκλου toû kínklou | τοῖν κῐ́γκλοιν toîn kínkloin | τῶν κῐ́γκλων tôn kínklōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῐ́γκλῳ tôi kínklōi | τοῖν κῐ́γκλοιν toîn kínkloin | τοῖς κῐ́γκλοις toîs kínklois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κῐ́γκλον tòn kínklon | τὼ κῐ́γκλω tṑ kínklō | τοὺς κῐ́γκλους toùs kínklous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῐ́γκλε kínkle | κῐ́γκλω kínklō | κῐ́γκλοι kínkloi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Translingual: Cinclus
Further reading
- “κίγκλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίγκλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κίγκλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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