φώκη

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of unknown origin. According to Beekes, Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

φώκη (phṓkēf (genitive φώκης); first declension

  1. seal (marine animal)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Greek: φώκια (fókia)
  • Latin: phōca (see there for further descendants), phōcē
  • Old Armenian: փոկ (pʻok)
  • Serbo-Croatian: fȍka/фо̏ка
  • Classical Syriac: ܦܘܩܐ (pōqē)

References

  • φώκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • φώκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • φώκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • φώκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • φώκη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • seal idem, page 746.
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1600