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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Variant of κάλαμος (kálamos), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂-m-.
Or from Pre-Greek. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.lá.mɛː/ → /kaˈla.mi/ → /kaˈla.mi/
Noun
κᾰλᾰ́μη • (kalámē) f (genitive κᾰλᾰ́μης); first declension
- reed, stalk
- stubble (remaining stalks in a field)
Inflection
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Further reading
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάλαμος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 621–622
- “καλάμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καλάμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “καλάμη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- καλάμη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- καλάμη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2562 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.