σκόροδον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σκόρδον (skórdon)

Etymology

A Mediterranean substrate word of the shape *skʰodoro, found also in Old Armenian խստոր (xstor, “garlic”) and Albanian hudhër (“id”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skó.ro.don/ → /ˈsko.ro.ðon/ → /ˈsko.ro.ðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skó.ro.don/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ro.don/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ro.ðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ro.ðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ro.ðon/

Noun

σκόροδον • (skórodon)

1. garlic

Descendants

• Greek: σκόρδο (skórdo)
• → Russian: скорода́ (skorodá), ско́рда (skórda)
• → Ossetian: скъуда (sk’uda), скъода (sk’oda)

Further reading

• “σκόροδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σκόροδον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • garlic idem, page 354.
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 334