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Ancient Greek
Etymology
In view of the glosses παιπάλλειν (paipállein, “to shake”) and παιπαλώσσω (paipalṓssō), this word could be an intensive reduplication of the root Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive, swing, shake”) of πάλλω (pállō, “to brandish a weapon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pai̯.pá.lɛː/ → /pɛˈpa.li/ → /peˈpa.li/
Noun
παιπᾰ́λη • (paipálē) f (genitive παιπᾰ́λης); first declension
- finest flour or meal
- Synonym: πᾰσπᾰ́λη (paspálē)
- subtle talker, shrewd person
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Further reading
- “παιπάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “παιπάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- παιπάλη 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