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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the connection with ἄχυρον (ákhuron, “chaff”) is proven by the glosses. The vocalic interchange points to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.kʰɔːr/ → /ˈa.xor/ → /ˈa.xor/
Noun
ἄχωρ • (ákhōr) m (genitive ἄχορος); third declension
- scurf, dandruff
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἄχωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄχωρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄχωρ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄχωρ, -ορος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 186