κελαινός

Morphologically isolated and therefore difficult to assess. The ending is similar to περκνός (perknós, “dusky”) and ἐρεμνός (eremnós, “murky, black”), but the first member remains unclear. It has been compared with several words, like κηλίς (kēlís, “spot, stain”) and Latin cālīgō (“mist”). According to Beekes, it could be a Pre-Greek word with a palatalized nasal.

κελαινός • (kelainós) m (feminine κελαινή, neuter κελαινόν); first/second declension

1. black, dark, swarthy, murky

• “κελαινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κελαινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κελαινός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κελαινός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κελαινός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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