πέλεκυς

Compare Sanskrit परशु (paraśú, “axe”) and Ossetian фӕрӕт (færæt, “axe”). This word often considered a Wanderwort, with similarity to Akkadian 𒁄 (pilakku, pilaqqu, “wooden handle; spindle, harp”), itself from Sumerian 𒁄 (balag, “wooden handle; spindle, harp; possibly a split piece of wood or wooden wedge”); compare Arabic فَلَقَ (falaqa, “to split apart”) and πέλεκκον (pélekkon, “axe handle”). This has led some to suggest that the Proto-Indo-European terms are ultimately borrowed through the Akkadian or a Semitic source. Furnée points to βέλεκκος (bélekkos, “kind of pulse”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin.

πέλεκῠς • (pélekus) m (genitive πελέκεως); third declension

1. two-edged axe for felling trees
2. battle axe, executioner's axe

• Greek: πέλεκυς (pélekys)

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

From Ancient Greek πέλεκυς (pélekus), cognate with Sanskrit परशु (paraśú, “axe”), which would reflect Proto-Indo-European *peleḱús if reconstructed back to PIE.^[1] Beekes suggested a Pre-Greek origin.^[2] Compare also German Beil (“axe”) as well as Hungarian and Turkish balta, both meaning "axe."

πέλεκυς • (pélekys) m (plural πελέκεις)

1. battle axe, double-headed axe

   Synonyms: τσεκούρι n (tsekoúri), πελέκι n (peléki)

2. a force that punishes severely

   Synonyms: ποινή f (poiní), απειλή f (apeilí), τιμωρία f (timoría)

   Βαρύς θα είναι ο πέλεκυς τού υπουργείου για τις κλινικές που δεν συμμορφώνονται με τον κανονισμό.

   Varýs tha eínai o pélekys toú ypourgeíou gia tis klinikés pou den symmorfónontai me ton kanonismó.

   The ministry's penalty will be severe for clinics that do not conform to the regulation.

  there is an alternative genitive singular: πελέκεως (pelékeos)

• χειροπέλεκυς m (cheiropélekys, “handaxe, handpick, chisel”)

• Kaulins, Ancient Signs: The Alphabet and the Origins of Writing
• πέλεκυς on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el