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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Usually suggested to be of Semitic origin, such as Phoenician or Hebrew אָבָק (ʾāḇā́q, “dust”),[1] but Beekes finds this unconvincing.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.baks/ → /ˈa.βaks/ → /ˈa.vaks/
Noun
ᾰ̓́βᾰξ • (ábax) m (genitive ἄβᾰκος); third declension
- board, slab
- reckoning board, abacus
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Klein, Ernest (1987) “אָבָק”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English, Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 4b
- ^ 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