ζεκελτίδες
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ζακελτίδες (zakeltídes)
Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Furnée compares θικέλιον (thikélion, “turnip”) and believes the word is Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zde.kel.tí.des/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ze.kelˈti.des/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ze.celˈti.ðes/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ze.celˈti.ðes/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ze.celˈti.ðes/
Noun
[edit]ζεκελτίδες • (zekeltídes)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: γογγυλίδες (gongulídes, “turnips”) or κολοκύνται (kolokúntai, “gourds”).
References
[edit]- “ζεκελτίδες”, 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: ζ