πελαργός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The origin is Pre-Greek. Folk-etymologically explained as πελός (pelós, dark) + ἀργός (argós, white). Has been linked with Old Armenian արագիլ (aragil). Witczak (1991) suggests that the word is a compound, with second term continuing otherwise unattested *ἁργός (*hargós), from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (stork), akin e.g. to Proto-Germanic *sturkaz (stork).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

πελᾱργός (pelārgós) m (genitive πελᾱργοῦ); second declension

  1. stork

Inflection

Descendants

  • Greek: πελαργός (pelargós)
  • Tunisian, Algerian, Moroccan Arabic: بِلَّارِج (billārij)

Further reading

  • πελαργός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • πελαργός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • πελαργός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • 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), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1165
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), արագիլ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 292–293
  • de Lagarde, Paul (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 225, page 19
  • Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz. 1991. "Indo-European *sr̥C in Germanic". Historische Sprachforschung 104:1, pp. 106–107.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

πελαργός (pelargós) m (plural πελαργοί)

  1. stork (bird)

Declension

See also

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