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Ancient Greek
Etymology
An onomatopoeic formation with many parallels, like Czech blekati, German blöken, Latvian blêt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blɛː.kʰɛ̌ː/ → /βliˈçi/ → /vliˈçi/
Noun
βληχή • (blēkhḗ) f (genitive βληχῆς); first declension
- bleat, bleating
- (of infants) wailing
Declension
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Further reading
- “βληχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βληχή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βληχή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βληχή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 221