τάγχουρος

• ἄγχουρος (ánkhouros), τάγχαρας (tánkharas)

In view of the variations, the word is of Pre-Greek origin, with the characteristic Pre-Greek sequence *-arʷ- realised as -ουρ- or -αρ- in the different variants.

τάγχουρος • (tánkhouros) m (genitive ταγχούρου); second declension

1. gold

   Synonym: χρυσός (khrusós)

   • c. 550 CE, Cosmas Indicopleustes, “III. Nubia et Aethiopia”, in Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae (W. Dittenberger, 1903)‎, section 199.35, page 296:

     αὕτη ἡ Σάσου χώρα ὑστάτη ἐστὶν τῶν Αἰθιόπων, ἔνθα καὶ πολὺ χρυσίον ἐστίν, τὸ λεγόμενον τάγχαρας

     haútē hē Sásou khṓra hustátē estìn tôn Aithiópōn, éntha kaì polù khrusíon estín, tò legómenon tánkharas

     this land of Sasou is further away than Ethiopia, and there is much gold there, the so called "tancharas"

The irregular genitive τάγχρου (tánkhrou) has been suggested by Liddel and Scott to be considered for the occurrence in Anthologia Palatina, Book XV, Chapter 25 (Besantinus), line 7.

• “τάγχουρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τάγχουρος 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