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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”), the same root of Proto-Germanic *glīwą (“glee”) and Proto-Slavic *glumiti (“to mock, to joke”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰlěu̯.ɛː/ → /ˈxle.βi/ → /ˈxle.vi/
Noun
χλεύη • (khleúē) f (genitive χλεύης); first declension
- joke, jest
Inflection
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References
- “χλεύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χλεύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χλεύη 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