τήνελλα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τήνεβλα (tḗnebla)
Etymology
Unknown. Said to be a word formed by Archilochus to imitate the twang of a guitar-string.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tɛ̌ː.nel.la/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈte̝.nel.la/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.nel.la/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.nel.la/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.ne.la/
Derived terms
- τήνελλος (tḗnellos)
Further reading
- “τήνελλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τήνελλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τήνελλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
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