κίγκλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κέγκλος (kénklos), κίχλος (kíkhlos)

Etymology

The variations show that the word is , thus not related to Sanskrit चञ्चल (cañcala, “nimble, shaking, flickering”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kíŋ.klos/ → /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/ → /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kíŋ.klos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkiŋ.klos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/

Noun

κίγκλος • (kínklos) m (genitive κίγκλου); second declension

1. dabchick (Cinclus cinclus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῐ́γκλος; τοῦ κῐ́γκλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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