σχερός

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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

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skʰe.rós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skʰeˈros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sçeˈros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sçeˈros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sçeˈros/

Noun

σχερός • (skherós)

(hapax) headland, beach
Synonyms: ἀκτή (aktḗ), αἰγιαλός (aigialós)
- 5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Σ:
  σχερός· ἀκτή, αἰγιαλός
  skherós; aktḗ, aigialós
  skherós: headland, beach

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

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