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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The relation with κανθίαι (kanthíai, “creels”), κάνθων (kánthōn, “pack-ass”) and κανθίς (kanthís, “dung of an ass”) is unclear, due to their specialized technical meanings. Formally, the word can be compared with κειμήλια (keimḗlia) and γαμήλιος (gamḗlios). According to Deroy, it is a Mediterranean substrate word. Furnée connects it with ἀνθήλιον (anthḗlion, “packsaddle”), with alternation k/-zero and assumes Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan.tʰɛ̌ː.li.a/ → /kanˈθi.li.a/ → /kanˈθi.li.a/
Noun
κανθήλια • (kanthḗlia) n pl (genitive κανθηλίων); second declension
- panniers at the sides of a packsaddle
- large baskets for carrying grapes
- wooden lattice shelter at a ship's stern
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Further reading
- “κανθήλια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κανθήλια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κανθήλια”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 635