Ταυλάντιοι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly from an Illyrian word meaning "swallow," from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to cut”) + *dwóh₁ (“two”), representing modern Albanian dallëndyshe (“swallow”). The name Taulantii appears to be connected with the word dallëndyshe, or tallandushe from Proto-Albanian *dalna and Proto-Albanian *duwai, meaning "swallow".[1]

Pronunciation
 

Noun

Ταυλάντῐοι • (Taulántioi) m (genitive Ταυλαντίων); second declension

  1. Taulantii, an Illyrian tribe settled on the coast of modern Albania.

Declension
Second declension of οἱ Ταυλάντῐοι; τῶν Ταυλαντῐ́ων (Attic)
Case / # Plural
Nominative οἱ Ταυλάντῐοι
hoi Taulántioi
Genitive τῶν Ταυλαντῐ́ων
tôn Taulantíōn
Dative τοῖς Ταυλαντῐ́οις
toîs Taulantíois
Accusative τοὺς Ταυλαντῐ́ους
toùs Taulantíous
Vocative Ταυλάντῐοι
Taulántioi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • → Latin: Taulantii

References
  1. Wilkes, John (1992) The Illyrians‎, Wiley, →ISBN, page 244 "Names of individuals peoples may have been formed in a similar fashion, Taulantii from ‘swallow’ (cf. the Albanian tallandushe) or Erchelei the ‘eel-men’ and Chelidoni the ‘snail-men’."

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