ἀμυγδάλη
Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown.
According to Beekes, variations in spelling indicate "a typical" Pre-Greek substrate word, tentatively reconstructed as *amutygala.[1] He also supported Furnée's comparison with μύκηρος (múkēros, “almond, kind of a nut”) and a couple of Anatolian words related to sweetness.
Alternatively, Blažek considers it possible to allow for Semitic provenance, namely to contain the term present in Hebrew שָׁקֵד (šāqḗḏ, “almond”), see there for variants, while accounting for the Greek /al/ by deeming a blend with the term in Hebrew דֶּקֶל (déqel) to participate, imagining derivations *midqalā “place planted with date-palms” and miṯqadā “place planted with almond-trees” and hybridized miṯqalā.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.myɡ.dá.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.myɡˈda.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.myɣˈða.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.myɣˈða.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.miɣˈða.li/
Noun[edit]
ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λη • (amugdálē) f (genitive ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λης); first declension
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λη hē amugdálē |
τὼ ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λᾱ tṑ amugdálā |
αἱ ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λαι hai amugdálai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λης tês amugdálēs |
τοῖν ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λαιν toîn amugdálain |
τῶν ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰλῶν tôn amugdalôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λῃ têi amugdálēi |
τοῖν ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λαιν toîn amugdálain |
ταῖς ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λαις taîs amugdálais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λην tḕn amugdálēn |
τὼ ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λᾱ tṑ amugdálā |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λᾱς tā̀s amugdálās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λη amugdálē |
ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λᾱ amugdálā |
ᾰ̓μῠγδᾰ́λαι amugdálai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
- ἀμυγδάλινος (amugdálinos)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “ἀμυγδάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀμυγδάλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀμυγδάλη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἀμυγδάλη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 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
- Blažek, Václav (2014) “Etymologizing ‘unetymologizable’ Greek dendronyms”, in Graeco-Latina Brunensia[2], volume 19, number 1, pages 41–43
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