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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The word resembles σκόλοψ (skólops, “palisade”) and, outside Greek, Albanian hell (“icicle; skewer”), Lithuanian kuõlas (“pole”) and Proto-Slavic *kolъ (“stake”). Probably from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to hew”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skɔ̂ː.los/ → /ˈsko.los/ → /ˈsko.los/
Noun
σκῶλος • (skôlos) m (genitive σκώλου); second declension
- pointed stake
- thorn, prickle
Inflection
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Further reading
- “σκῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σκῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “σκῶλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σκῶλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σκῶλος 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) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN