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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Egyptian, found in Coptic ϫⲉⲗϥⲁⲧ (čelfat), ⲥⲗⲃⲟⲧ (slbot), Arabic شِلْبَا (šilbā), or perhaps already Pre-Greek and of shared origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sál.pɛː/ → /ˈsal.pi/ → /ˈsal.pi/
Noun
σᾰ́λπη • (sálpē) f (genitive σᾰ́λπης); first declension
- Salema porgy (Sarpa salpa)
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “σάλπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σάλπη 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
- Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth (1928) “On Egyptian Fish-Names used by Greek Writers”, in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 14, →DOI, pages 29–30