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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁élḱos (“wound, illness, ulcer”), from the root *h₁elḱ-. Cognate with Latin ulcus (“ulcer”) and Sanskrit अर्शस् (árśas, “hemorrhoids”)). The non-etymological spiritus asper is usually explained by the folk-etymological influence of ἕλκω (hélkō, “to drag”).[1][2][3][4]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hél.kos/ → /ˈel.kos/ → /ˈel.kos/
Noun
ἕλκος • (hélkos) n (genitive ἕλκεος or ἕλκους); third declension
- An open wound, an injury
- A cut in a tree
Inflection
Derived terms
- ἀνελκής (anelkḗs, “free from ulceration”)
- ἀνελκόομαι (anelkóomai, “suppurate afresh”)
- ἀφελκόω (aphelkóō, “make an incision, tap”)
- δυσελκής (duselkḗs, “unfavourable for healing”)
- ἑλκαίνω (helkaínō, “fester”)
- ἑλκήεις (helkḗeis, “full of ulcers”)
- ἑλκόομαι (helkóomai)
- ἑλκοποιέω (helkopoiéō, “make wounds”)
- ἑλκοποιός (helkopoiós, “wounding”)
- ἑλκόω (helkóō, “wound, lacerate”)
- ἑλκύδριον n (helkúdrion, “slight sore”)
- ἑλκώδης (helkṓdēs, “like a wound”)
- ἕλκωμα n (hélkōma, “sore, ulcer”)
- ἑλκωματικός (helkōmatikós, “causing sores”)
- ἕλκωσις f (hélkōsis, “ulceration”)
- ἑλκωτικός (helkōtikós, “causing sores”)
- ἐξελκόω (exelkóō, “cause sores in”)
- ἐξέλκωσις f (exélkōsis, “-causing of sores in”)
- ἐφελκόομαι (ephelkóomai, “break out into sores”)
- ἐφέλκωσις f (ephélkōsis, “ulceration”)
- καθελκόομαι (kathelkóomai, “break out into sores”)
- κακελκής (kakelkḗs, “having an ulcer”)
- κακοελκής (kakoelkḗs, “badly festering”)
- πολυελκής (poluelkḗs, “with many sores”)
- προελκόομαι (proelkóomai, “be ulcerated before”)
- προεξελκόω (proexelkóō, “exulcerate before”)
Unrelated to the derived words from ἕλκω (hélkō, “I drag”).
Descendants
- → Greek: έλκος (élkos) (learned)
References
- ^ Solmsen, Felix (1894) Studien zur lateinischen Lautgeschichte (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, page 18, footnote 1
- ^ Chantraine, Pierre (1968–1980) “ἕλκος”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Paris: Klincksieck, page 339b
- ^ Frisk, Hjalmar (1960) “ἕλκος”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 496–497
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 412
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