φάλλαινα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

May be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to swell”). See φαλλός (phallós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰál.lai̯.na/ → /ˈɸal.lɛ.na/ → /ˈfa.le.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰál.lai̯.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰal.lɛ.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸal.lɛ.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.le.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.le.na/

Noun

φάλλαινᾰ • (phállaina) f (genitive φαλλαίνης); first declension

1. whale

Usage notes

Not to be confused with φάλαινᾰ (phálaina, “moth”).

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φάλλαινᾰ; τῆς φαλλαίνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φάλλαινᾰ hē phállaina	αἱ φάλλαιναι hai phállainai
Genitive	τῆς φαλλαίνης tês phallaínēs	τῶν φαλλαινῶν tôn phallainôn
Dative	τῇ φαλλαίνῃ têi phallaínēi	ταῖς φαλλαίναις taîs phallaínais
Accusative	τὴν φάλλαινᾰν tḕn phállainan	τᾱ̀ς φαλλαίνᾱς tā̀s phallaínās
Vocative	φάλλαινᾰ phállaina	φάλλαιναι phállainai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: φάλαινα (fálaina), φάλινα (fálina), φάλ'να (fál'na) — dialectal
  • → Turkish: afalina, afala (İzmir, Rize), afarna (Ordu)
    • → Russian: афали́на (afalína), офели́на (ofelína) — obsolete
      • → Abkhaz: афали́на (afalína)
      • → Armenian: աֆալինա (afalina)
      • → Azerbaijani: afalina
      • → Georgian: აფალინა (apalina)
      • → Ukrainian: афалі́на (afalína)
    • → English: afalina
    • → Romanian: afalin
    • → Bulgarian: афа́ла (afála)
• → Latin: ballaena, bālaena, ballēna, bālēna
  • Asturian: ballena, baḷḷena
  • → Proto-Basque: *baLena
    • Basque: balea
  • Catalan: balena
  • Corsican: balena
  • Emilian: baläṅna
  • → Old French: baleine
    • French: baleine
    • → Middle English: baleyne, balena
      • English: baleen
  • Friulian: balene
  • → Hungarian: bálna
  • Italian: balena (see there for further descendants)
  • Karipúna Creole French: balén
  • Ladin: balena
  • Occitan: balena
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: balẽa
    • Galician: balea
    • Portuguese: baleia (see there for further descendants)
  • Piedmontese: balena
  • Romanian: balenă
  • Romansch: balena
  • Sardinian: balèna
  • Spanish: ballena (see there for further descendants)
  • Venetian: bałéna
  • Walloon: ballaînn

Further reading

• “φάλλαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φάλλαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φάλλαινα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

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Greek

Noun

φάλλαινα • (fállaina) f (plural φάλλαινες)

1. Alternative form of φάλαινα (fálaina)

Declension

Declension of φάλλαινα

	singular	plural
nominative	φάλλαινα •	φάλλαινες •
genitive	φάλλαινας •	φαλλαινών •
accusative	φάλλαινα •	φάλλαινες •
vocative	φάλλαινα •	φάλλαινες •