ἀμυγδάλη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown.
According to Beekes, variations in spelling indicate "a typical" Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "pregrc" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. substrate word. He also supported Furnée's comparison with μύκηρος (múkēros, “almond, kind of a nut”) and a couple of Anatolian words related to sweetness.
Alternatively, Blažek considers it possible to allow for Semitic provenance. Even though the well-known root for “almond” is *θiqd-, cf. שָׁקֵד (šāqēd), he hypothesises that it might have been contaminated with the Canaanite Semitic *dáqal- “date”, resulting in a significant semantic shift of the borrowed Phoenician-Hebrew *midqalā “place planted with date-palms”.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.myɡ.dá.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.myɡˈda.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.myɣˈða.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.myɣˈða.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.miɣˈða.li/
Noun
ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λη • (amugdálē) f (genitive ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λης); first declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λη hē amugdálē |
τὼ ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λᾱ tṑ amugdálā |
αἱ ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λαι hai amugdálai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λης tês amugdálēs |
τοῖν ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λαιν toîn amugdálain |
τῶν ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰλῶν tôn amugdalôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λῃ têi amugdálēi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λαιν toîn amugdálain |
ταῖς ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λαις taîs amugdálais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λην tḕn amugdálēn |
τὼ ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λᾱ tṑ amugdálā |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λᾱς tā̀s amugdálās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λη amugdálē |
ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λᾱ amugdálā |
ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λαι amugdálai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀμυγδάλινος (amugdálinos)
Descendants
References
- “ἀμυγδάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀμυγδάλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀμυγδάλη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἀμυγδάλη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 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
- https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/130047
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