κίγκλος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κέγκλος (kénklos), κίχλος (kíkhlos)
Etymology
The variations show that the word is Pre-Greek, thus not related to Sanskrit चञ्चल (cañcala, “nimble, shaking, flickering”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kíŋ.klos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkiŋ.klos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/
Noun
κίγκλος • (kínklos) m (genitive κίγκλου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κῐ́γκλος ho kĭ́nklos |
τὼ κῐ́γκλω tṑ kĭ́nklō |
οἱ κῐ́γκλοι hoi kĭ́nkloi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κῐ́γκλου toû kĭ́nklou |
τοῖν κῐ́γκλοιν toîn kĭ́nkloin |
τῶν κῐ́γκλων tôn kĭ́nklōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κῐ́γκλῳ tōî kĭ́nklōi |
τοῖν κῐ́γκλοιν toîn kĭ́nkloin |
τοῖς κῐ́γκλοις toîs kĭ́nklois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κῐ́γκλον tòn kĭ́nklon |
τὼ κῐ́γκλω tṑ kĭ́nklō |
τοὺς κῐ́γκλους toùs kĭ́nklous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῐ́γκλε kĭ́nkle |
κῐ́γκλω kĭ́nklō |
κῐ́γκλοι kĭ́nkloi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Translingual: Cinclus
Further reading
- “κίγκλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίγκλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κίγκλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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