χάβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Clearly related to χαμόν (khamón, “bent, curved”). The variation "μ/β" leads to a Pre-Greek origin. Traditionally compared also to Latin hāmus (“fish-hook”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰá.bos/ → /ˈxa.βos/ → /ˈxa.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰá.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰa.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.vos/

Noun

χάβος • (khábos)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: κημός (kēmós, “muzzle”).

Further reading

• “χάβος”, 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: χ