ἀγάλοχον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀγαλίχον (agalíkhon), ἀγάλλοχον (agállokhon)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀓𑀺𑀮𑁰 (akil), from the same source as Arabic يَلَنْجُوج (yalanjūj), يَلَنْجَج (yalanjaj), يَلَنْجِيج (yalanjīj), أَلَنْجُوج (ʔalanjūj), أَلَنْجَج (ʔalanjaj), Biblical Hebrew אֲהָלִים (ʾăhālîm); compare அகில் (akil, “agarwood”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ɡá.lo.kʰon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈɡa.lo.kʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈɣa.lo.xon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈɣa.lo.xon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈɣa.lo.xon/
Noun
ἀγᾰ́λοχον • (agálokhon) n (genitive ἀγᾰλόχου); second declension
- agalloch (Aquilaria malaccensis)
- Synonym: ξυλᾱλόη (xulālóē)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἀγᾰ́λοχον tò agálokhon |
τὼ ἀγᾰλόχω tṑ agalókhō |
τᾰ̀ ἀγᾰ́λοχᾰ tà agálokha | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀγᾰλόχου toû agalókhou |
τοῖν ἀγᾰλόχοιν toîn agalókhoin |
τῶν ἀγᾰλόχων tôn agalókhōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἀγᾰλόχῳ tôi agalókhōi |
τοῖν ἀγᾰλόχοιν toîn agalókhoin |
τοῖς ἀγᾰλόχοις toîs agalókhois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἀγᾰ́λοχον tò agálokhon |
τὼ ἀγᾰλόχω tṑ agalókhō |
τᾰ̀ ἀγᾰ́λοχᾰ tà agálokha | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀγᾰ́λοχον agálokhon |
ἀγᾰλόχω agalókhō |
ἀγᾰ́λοχᾰ agálokha | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Catalan: agàl·loc
- → English: agalloch
References
- James, Gregory, Tamil lexicography, p.5
- Iyengar, Srinivasa, History of the Tamils: From the Earliest Times to 600 A.D, p.130
Further reading
- “ἀγάλοχον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀγάλοχον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀγάλοχον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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
- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 414
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