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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes from Proto-Indo-European *gʰelh₂d- (“hail; hoarfrost”). Cognate with Persian ژاله (žâle, “hail”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰá.laz.da/ → /ˈxa.la.za/ → /ˈxa.la.za/
Noun
χᾰ́λαζᾰ • (khálaza) f (genitive χᾰλάζης); first declension
- hail, sleet
- pimple, tubercle
- knot, lump
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- ^ Austin, The. 2018. " Indo-European Lexicon: PIE Etymon And IE Reflexes ". Lrc.La.Utexas.Edu. Accessed December 22 2018. .
Further reading
- “χάλαζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χάλαζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χάλαζα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χάλαζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- χάλαζα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χάλαζα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5464 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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