σκόροδον

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

σκόρδον (skórdon)

Etymology

A Mediterranean substrate word of the shape *skʰodoro, found also in Old Armenian խստոր (xstor, “garlic”) and Albanian hudhër (“id”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skó.ro.don/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ro.don/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ro.ðon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ro.ðon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ro.ðon/

Noun

σκόροδον • (skórodon)

garlic

Descendants

Greek: σκόρδο (skórdo)
→ Russian: скорода́ (skorodá), ско́рда (skórda)
→ Ossetian: скъуда (sk’uda), скъода (sk’oda)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σκόροδον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1358

Further reading

“σκόροδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σκόροδον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- garlic idem, page 354.
Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 334

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