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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Hiersche assumed a pre-form *σκερός (*skerós), related to Middle English schore (“shore”), which is from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”). However, this is uncertain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skʰe.rós/ → /sçeˈros/ → /sçeˈros/
Noun
σχερός • (skherós)
- (hapax) headland, beach
- Synonyms: ἀκτή (aktḗ), αἰγιαλός (aigialós)
Further reading
- “σχερός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σχερός 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
- Hiersche, Rolf (1964) Untersuchungen zur Frage der Tenues aspiratae im Indogermanischen (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 218
- Hesychius' Lexicon: σ