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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Explained as an expressive formation like στοναχή (stonakhḗ), derived from a verb "to sing" seen in Latin canō (“I sing”) and Old Irish canaid. Furnée compares κόναβος (kónabos, “din, clash”) and concludes that the word is Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.na.kʰɛ̌ː/ → /ka.naˈçi/ → /ka.naˈçi/
Noun
κᾰνᾰχή • (kanakhḗ) f (genitive κᾰνᾰχῆς); first declension
- noise, any sharp sound
- ring of clang of metal
- gnashing of teeth
- sound of flutes
Inflection
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Further reading
- “καναχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καναχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καναχή 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