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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
The word has been compared with Lithuanian vilkti (“to drag, haul”) and Proto-Slavic *velťi (“to draw”). Beekes claims that the variants point to a Pre-Greek origin, in particular a form *alʷ-ak-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /âu̯.laks/ → /ˈa.βlaks/ → /ˈa.vlaks/
Noun
αὖλᾰξ • (aûlax) f (genitive αὔλᾰκος); third declension
- furrow
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Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄλοξ, -κος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 73–74
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 6
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