λαιμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée compares this word with λαιφός (laiphós) and λαιφάσσω (laiphássō), which proves Pre-Greek origin. Possibly related also to λαῖπος (laîpos).

Pronunciation

Noun

λαιμός • (laimós) m (genitive λαιμοῦ); second declension

1. (anatomy) throat, gullet

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: λαιμός (laimós)

Further reading

• “λαιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λαιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λαιμός 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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λαιμός (laimós), probably a Pre-Greek word; compare λαῖπος (laîpos), λαιφάσσω (laiphássō, “to gulp down, swallow”), and λαιφός (laiphós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈmos/

Noun

λαιμός • (laimós) m (plural λαιμοί)

1. (anatomy) neck, throat

Declension

Synonyms

• αυχένας m (afchénas, “neck, nape of neck”)
• τράχηλος m (tráchilos, “neck”)

Derived terms

• μαυρόλαιμος (mavrólaimos, “black-throated”)
• κοκκινολαίμης m (kokkinolaímis, “robin”, literally “red throat”)

See also

• αυχενικός (afchenikós, “cervical”)

References

• 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

Further reading

• λαιμός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el