καβάλλης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Like Latin caballus (“pack-horse”), is an Asiatic loan or Wanderwort. It has been compared with Proto-Slavic *kobýla (“mare”) and Persian کول (kaval, “second class horse of mixed blood”). Maybe borrowed from Proto-Iranian *kabah, *kabalah, compare Khotanese [script needed] (kabä, “horse”), and possibly cognate with Latin cabō (“gelding”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kebʰ- (“worn-out horse, nag”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.bál.lɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈbal.le̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈβal.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈval.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈva.lis/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κᾰβᾰ́λλης ho kabállēs |
τὼ κᾰβᾰ́λλᾱ tṑ kabállā |
οἱ κᾰβᾰ́λλαι hoi kabállai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κᾰβᾰ́λλου toû kabállou |
τοῖν κᾰβᾰ́λλαιν toîn kabállain |
τῶν κᾰβᾰλλῶν tôn kaballôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κᾰβᾰ́λλῃ tôi kabállēi |
τοῖν κᾰβᾰ́λλαιν toîn kabállain |
τοῖς κᾰβᾰ́λλαις toîs kabállais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κᾰβᾰ́λλην tòn kabállēn |
τὼ κᾰβᾰ́λλᾱ tṑ kabállā |
τοὺς κᾰβᾰ́λλᾱς toùs kabállās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰβᾰ́λλη kabállē |
κᾰβᾰ́λλᾱ kabállā |
κᾰβᾰ́λλαι kabállai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κᾰβᾰ́λλειον (kabálleion)
- κᾰβᾰλλᾰρῐκός (kaballarikós)
- κᾰβᾰλλᾱ́τῐον (kaballā́tion)
Further reading
- “καβάλλης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- καβάλλης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “καβάλλης”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 611
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