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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. It has been compared with Russian жир (žir, “fat, lard”) and Czech žír (“fodder”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰiː.lós/ → /çiˈlos/ → /çiˈlos/
Noun
χῑλός • (khīlós) m (genitive χῑλοῦ); second declension
- green fodder for cattle, forage, provender
- pasturage
Inflection
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References
- “χιλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χιλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χιλός 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