χελιδών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The irregular form and suffix -ιδ (-id) lead Beekes to suggest a Mediterranean Pre-Greek origin, as he doesn't find a connection to Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cry out”) (cognate with Middle High German glien (“to cry”), Old High German gellan (“to cry”)) convincing. Compare also Latin hirundō (“swallow (bird)”), which may be from the same substrate source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰe.liː.dɔ̌ːn/ → /çe.liˈðon/ → /çe.liˈðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰe.liː.dɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰe.liˈdon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çe.liˈðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çe.liˈðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çe.liˈðon/

Noun

χελῑδών • (khelīdṓn) f (genitive χελῑδόνος); third declension

1. the swallow
2. the frog in a horse’s foot

Declension

Third declension of ἡ χελῑδών; τῆς χελῑδόνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χελῑδών hē khelīdṓn	τὼ χελῑδόνε tṑ khelīdóne	αἱ χελῑδόνες hai khelīdónes
Genitive	τῆς χελῑδόνος tês khelīdónos	τοῖν χελῑδόνοιν toîn khelīdónoin	τῶν χελῑδόνων tôn khelīdónōn
Dative	τῇ χελῑδόνῐ têi khelīdóni	τοῖν χελῑδόνοιν toîn khelīdónoin	ταῖς χελῑδόσῐ / χελῑδόσῐν taîs khelīdósi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χελῑδόνᾰ tḕn khelīdóna	τὼ χελῑδόνε tṑ khelīdóne	τᾱ̀ς χελῑδόνᾰς tā̀s khelīdónas
Vocative	χελῑδοῖ khelīdoî	χελῑδόνε khelīdóne	χελῑδόνες khelīdónes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μία χελιδὼν ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ (mía khelidṑn éar ou poieî)
• χελῑδόνῐος (khelīdónios)
• χελῑδόνῐον (khelīdónion)

Descendants

• Latin: chelīdōn

Further reading

• “χελιδών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χελιδών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χελιδών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χελιδών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χελιδών 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.
  • swallow idem, page 846.
  • swift idem, page 848.