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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The ending recalls other sound words like ἄραβος (árabos), θόρυβος (thórubos) and ὄτοβος (ótobos). Furnée assumes a Pre-Greek origin, comparing καναχή (kanakhḗ, “clattering, rattling”), with the interchanges α/ο and χ/β.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kó.na.bos/ → /ˈko.na.βos/ → /ˈko.na.vos/
Noun
κόνᾰβος • (kónabos) m (genitive κονᾰ́βου); second declension
- din, clash, ringing
Inflection
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Further reading
- “κόναβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόναβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόναβος 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