φάλλαινα
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- φάλαινᾰ (phálaina, “moth”)
Etymology
[edit]Traditionally derived, according to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to swell”); see also φαλλός (phallós, “penis, phallus”).[1] However, Beekes considers the word Pre-Greek due to variation between the single and geminate λ in its variant forms.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰál.lai̯.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰal.lɛ.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸal.lɛ.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfal.le.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfa.le.na/
Noun
[edit]φάλλαινᾰ • (phállaina) f (genitive φαλλαίνης); first declension
Inflection
[edit]| 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: |
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Descendants
[edit]- Greek: φάλαινα (fálaina) (see there for further descendants)
- → Latin: ballaena (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 120
- ^ 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, page 1549
Further reading
[edit]- “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
Greek
[edit]Noun
[edit]φάλλαινα • (fállaina) f (plural φάλλαινες)
- Alternative form of φάλαινα (fálaina)
Declension
[edit]Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- grc:Moths
- grc:Whales
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek feminine nouns
- Greek nouns declining like 'βασίλισσα'