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Ancient Greek
Etymology
It has been compared with Sanskrit शर्या (śaryā, “cane, arrow, missile”), शल्य (śalya, “spear, javelin”) and further Middle Irish cail (“spear”), Old Norse hali (“tail”). However, all these words go back to a root with a short vowel, as opposed to this word, with a long one. Connection with κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood, timber”) is rejected by Frisk and DELG.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛ̂ː.lon/ → /ˈci.lon/ → /ˈci.lon/
Noun
κῆλον • (kêlon) n (genitive κήλου); second declension
- (in the plural) shafts of an arrow, arrows, projectiles
Inflection
Further reading
- “κῆλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κῆλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κῆλον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κῆλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κῆλον 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