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φώκη

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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    Of unknown origin. According to Beekes, likely Pre-Greek.[1]

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    φώκη (phṓkēf (genitive φώκης); first declension

    1. seal (marine animal)

    Inflection

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    Descendants

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    • Greek: φώκια (fókia)
    • Latin: phōca (see there for further descendants), phōcē
    • Old Armenian: փոկ (pʻok)
    • Serbo-Croatian: fȍka/фо̏ка
    • Classical Syriac: ܦܘܩܐ (pōqē)

    References

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    1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “φώκη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1600

    Further reading

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    • φώκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • φώκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • φώκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
    • φώκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
    • φώκη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
    • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
      • seal idem, page 746.
    • φώκη, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011