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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The variations show that the word is Pre-Greek, thus not related to Sanskrit चञ्चल (cañcala, “nimble, shaking, flickering”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kíŋ.klos/ → /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/ → /ˈciŋ.ɡlos/
Noun
κίγκλος • (kínklos) m (genitive κίγκλου); second declension
- dabchick (Cinclus cinclus)
Inflection
Descendants
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