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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *túkos, traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *teuk-, with cognates in Russian ткать (tkatʹ, “to weave”) and Latvian tūkât (“to knead, press”). Yet the consonant variation rather seems to demonstrate that the word is Pre-Greek. The influence of τεύχω (teúkhō, “to make”) is improbable, as its meaning is not specific enough.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tý.kos/ → /ˈty.kos/ → /ˈti.kos/
Noun
τῠ́κος • (túkos) m (genitive τῠ́κου); second declension
- instrument for stonework, mason's hammer or pick
- battle axe, poleaxe
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Further reading
- “τύκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τύκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τύκος 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