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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The suffix -αλ- is found also in κρόταλον (krótalon), ῥόπαλον (rhópalon) and other loanwords. Connection with Latin crepō (“to rattle, creak”), Lithuanian skrebeti (“to rustle”) and Russian кропота́ть (kropotátʹ, “to grumble”) is impossible, as Greek "β" cannot be due to the proceeding nasal. This nasal rather points to a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krém.ba.la/ → /ˈkrem.ba.la/ → /ˈkrem.ba.la/
Noun
κρέμβᾰλα • (krémbala) n pl (genitive κρεμβᾰ́λων); second declension
- castanets, clappers
- Synonym: κρόταλον (krótalon)
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Further reading
- “κρέμβαλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρέμβαλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κρέμβαλα 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