πελαργός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The origin is Pre-Greek. Folk-etymologically explained as πελλός (pellós, “dark”) + ἀργός (argós, “white”). Has been linked with Old Armenian արագիլ (aragil).
Witczak (1991) suggests that the word is a compound, with second term continuing otherwise unattested *ἁργός (*hargós), from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”), akin e.g. to Proto-Germanic *sturkaz (“stork”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.laːr.ɡós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pe.larˈɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pe.larˈɣos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pe.larˈɣos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pe.larˈɣos/
Noun
πελᾱργός • (pelārgós) m (genitive πελᾱργοῦ); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πελᾱργός ho pelārgós |
τὼ πελᾱργώ tṑ pelārgṓ |
οἱ πελᾱργοί hoi pelārgoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πελᾱργοῦ toû pelārgoû |
τοῖν πελᾱργοῖν toîn pelārgoîn |
τῶν πελᾱργῶν tôn pelārgôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πελᾱργῷ tōî pelārgōî |
τοῖν πελᾱργοῖν toîn pelārgoîn |
τοῖς πελᾱργοῖς toîs pelārgoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πελᾱργόν tòn pelārgón |
τὼ πελᾱργώ tṑ pelārgṓ |
τοὺς πελᾱργούς toùs pelārgoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πελᾱργέ pelārgé |
πελᾱργώ pelārgṓ |
πελᾱργοί pelārgoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: πελαργός (pelargós)
- → Arabic: بِلَّارِج (billārij) (Tunisian, Algerian, Moroccan)
- → Classical Syriac: ܦܝܠܪܓܐ (pīlargā)
Further reading
- “πελαργός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πελαργός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πελαργός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- stork idem, page 821.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1165
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “արագիլ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 292–293
- Lagarde, Paul de (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 225, page 19
- Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz. 1991. "Indo-European *sr̥C in Germanic". Historische Sprachforschung 104:1, pp. 106–107.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek.
Noun
πελαργός • (pelargós) m (plural πελαργοί)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | πελαργός (pelargós) | πελαργοί (pelargoí) |
| genitive | πελαργού (pelargoú) | πελαργών (pelargón) |
| accusative | πελαργό (pelargó) | πελαργούς (pelargoús) |
| vocative | πελαργέ (pelargé) | πελαργοί (pelargoí) |
See also
Further reading
- πελαργός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el