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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pēd-ó-, from *ped- (“to walk, step”), the same root of Latvian pēda (“foot”) and Lithuanian pėdà (“foot”). Semantically, the use of "foot" for "rudder" can be explained by the flat form and low position of a ship's rudder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛː.dón/ → /piˈðon/ → /piˈðon/
Noun
πηδόν • (pēdón) n (genitive πηδοῦ); second declension
- oar blade, hence generally, oar
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- ⇒ Byzantine Greek: *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”)
Further reading
- “πηδόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πηδόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πηδόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πηδόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πηδόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1185