ἀλκυών
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἁλκυών (halkuṓn)
- αὐκυών (aukuṓn) – Cretan
Etymology
Unknown, apparently from Pre-Greek. Already in Ancient Greek, this non-Indoeuropean origin produced a folk etymology and the corresponding alternative spelling ἁλκυών (halkuṓn) based on the imagined derivation from ἅλς (háls, “salt”) + κυέω (kuéō, “I conceive”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /al.ky.ɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /al.kyˈon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /al.cyˈon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /al.cyˈon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /al.ciˈon/
Noun
ἀλκυών • (alkuṓn) f (genitive ἀλκυόνος); third declension
- kingfisher, halcyon
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ἀλκῠών; τῆς ἀλκῠόνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀλκῠών hē alkuṓn | τὼ ἀλκῠόνε tṑ alkuóne | αἱ ἀλκῠόνες hai alkuónes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀλκῠόνος tês alkuónos | τοῖν ἀλκῠόνοιν toîn alkuónoin | τῶν ἀλκῠόνων tôn alkuónōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀλκῠόνῐ têi alkuóni | τοῖν ἀλκῠόνοιν toîn alkuónoin | ταῖς ἀλκῠόσῐ / ἀλκῠόσῐν taîs alkuósi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀλκῠόνᾰ tḕn alkuóna | τὼ ἀλκῠόνε tṑ alkuóne | τᾱ̀ς ἀλκῠόνᾰς tā̀s alkuónas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀλκῠών alkuṓn | ἀλκῠόνε alkuóne | ἀλκῠόνες alkuónes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: alcēdō, halcyōn
- → Esperanto: alcedo
- → Old Armenian: աղկիոն (ałkion), աղկիովն (ałkiovn)
- → Middle Georgian: ალკჳონი (alḳwioni)
Further reading
- “ἀλκυών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀλκυών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀλκυών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀλκυών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀλκυών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀλκυών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “ἀλκυών”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- king-fisher idem, page 470.