φάλλαινα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
May be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to swell”).[1] See φαλλός (phallós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰál.lai̯.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰal.lɛ.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸal.lɛ.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfal.le.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfa.le.na/
Noun
φάλλαινᾰ • (phállaina) f (genitive φαλλαίνης); first declension
- whale
Usage notes
Not to be confused with φάλαινᾰ (phálaina, “moth”).
Inflection
First declension of ἡ φάλλαινᾰ; τῆς φαλλαίνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ φάλλαινᾰ hē phállaina | αἱ φάλλαιναι hai phállainai | |||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς φαλλαίνης tês phallaínēs | τῶν φαλλαινῶν tôn phallainôn | |||||||||||
Dative | τῇ φαλλαίνῃ têi phallaínēi | ταῖς φαλλαίναις taîs phallaínais | |||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν φάλλαινᾰν tḕn phállainan | τᾱ̀ς φαλλαίνᾱς tā̀s phallaínās | |||||||||||
Vocative | φάλλαινᾰ phállaina | φάλλαιναι phállainai | |||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: φάλαινα (fálaina), φάλινα (fálina), φάλ'να (fál'na)
- → Turkish: afalina, afala; afarna
- → Russian: афали́на (afalína), офели́на (ofelína)
- → Abkhaz: афали́на (afalína)
- → Armenian: աֆալինա (afalina)
- → Azerbaijani: afalina
- → Georgian: აფალინა (apalina)
- → Ukrainian: афалі́на (afalína)
- → English: afalina
- → Romanian: afalin
- → Bulgarian: афа́ла (afála)
- → Russian: афали́на (afalína), офели́на (ofelína)
- → Turkish: afalina, afala; afarna
- → Latin: ballaena, bālaena, ballēna, bālēna
- Asturian: ballena, baḷḷena
- → Proto-Basque: *baLena
- Basque: balea
- Catalan: balena
- Corsican: balena
- Emilian: baläṅna
- → Old French: baleine
- French: baleine
- → Middle English: baleyne, balena
- English: baleen
- Friulian: balene
- → Hungarian: bálna
- Italian: balena
- → Azerbaijani: balina
- → Ottoman Turkish: بالنه
- Turkish: balina
- Karipúna Creole French: balén
- Ladin: balena
- Occitan: balena
- Old Portuguese: balẽa
- Galician: balea
- Portuguese: baleia (see there for further descendants)
- Piedmontese: balena
- Romanian: balenă
- Romansch: balena
- Sardinian: balèna
- Spanish: ballena
- → Cebuano: balyena
- → Huave: ballen
- → Masbatenyo: balyena
- → Tagalog: balyena
- Venetian: bałéna
- Walloon: ballaînn
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 120
Further reading
- “φάλλαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φάλλαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φάλλαινα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Noun
φάλλαινα • (fállaina) f (plural φάλλαινες)
- Alternative form of φάλαινα (fálaina)
Declension
declension of φάλλαινα
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | φάλλαινα • | φάλλαινες • |
genitive | φάλλαινας • | φαλλαινών • |
accusative | φάλλαινα • | φάλλαινες • |
vocative | φάλλαινα • | φάλλαινες • |