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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“hill”), from the root *kelH- (“to rise”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), and Lithuanian kálnas (“mountain”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.lɔ̌ː.nɛː/ → /koˈlo.ni/ → /koˈlo.ni/
Noun
κολώνη • (kolṓnē) f (genitive κολώνης); first declension
- hill, mound, especially a sepulchral mound
- hilltop, peak
Inflection
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References
Further reading
- “κολώνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κολώνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κολώνη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011