χελιδών

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

The irregular form and suffix -ιδ (-id) lead Beekes to suggest a Mediterranean Pre-Greek origin, as he doesn't find a connection to Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cry out”) (cognate with Middle High German glien (“to cry”), Old High German gellan (“to cry”)) convincing. Compare also Latin hirundō (“swallow (bird)”), which may be from the same substrate source.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

χελῑδών • (khelīdṓn) f (genitive χελῑδόνος); third declension

  1. the swallow
  2. the frog in a horse’s foot

Declension

Third declension of ἡ χελῑδών; τῆς χελῑδόνος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ χελῑδών
hē khelīdṓn 		τὼ χελῑδόνε
tṑ khelīdóne 		αἱ χελῑδόνες
hai khelīdónes
Genitive τῆς χελῑδόνος
tês khelīdónos 		τοῖν χελῑδόνοιν
toîn khelīdónoin 		τῶν χελῑδόνων
tôn khelīdónōn
Dative τῇ χελῑδόνῐ
têi khelīdóni 		τοῖν χελῑδόνοιν
toîn khelīdónoin 		ταῖς χελῑδόσῐ / χελῑδόσῐν
taîs khelīdósi(n)
Accusative τὴν χελῑδόνᾰ
tḕn khelīdóna 		τὼ χελῑδόνε
tṑ khelīdóne 		τᾱ̀ς χελῑδόνᾰς
tā̀s khelīdónas
Vocative χελῑδοῖ
khelīdoî 		χελῑδόνε
khelīdóne 		χελῑδόνες
khelīdónes
Notes:

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Latin: chelīdōn

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χελῑδών, -όνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1622-3

Further reading

  • “χελιδών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “χελιδών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “χελιδών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • χελιδών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • χελιδών 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.
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