σχερός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Hiersche assumed a pre-form *σκερός (*skerós), related to Middle English schore (“shore”), which is from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”). However, this is uncertain.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skʰe.rós/ → /sçeˈros/ → /sçeˈros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skʰe.rós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skʰeˈros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sçeˈros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sçeˈros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sçeˈros/

Noun

σχερός • (skherós)

1. (hapax) headland, beach

   Synonyms: ἀκτή (aktḗ), αἰγιαλός (aigialós)

   • 5th century C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Σ:

     σχερός· ἀκτή, αἰγιαλός

     skherós; aktḗ, aigialós

     skherós: headland, beach

Further reading

• “σχερός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σχερός 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
• Hiersche, Rolf (1964) Untersuchungen zur Frage der Tenues aspiratae im Indogermanischen (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 218
• Hesychius' Lexicon: σ