κίχλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kí.kʰlɛː/ → /ˈci.xli/ → /ˈci.xli/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kí.kʰlɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈki.kʰle̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.xli/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.xli/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.xli/

Noun

κῐ́χλη • (kíkhlē) f (genitive κῐ́χλης); first declension

1. thrush (bird)
2. wrasse

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κῐ́χλη; τῆς κῐ́χλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῐ́χλη hē kíkhlē	τὼ κῐ́χλᾱ tṑ kíkhlā	αἱ κῐ́χλαι hai kíkhlai
Genitive	τῆς κῐ́χλης tês kíkhlēs	τοῖν κῐ́χλαιν toîn kíkhlain	τῶν κῐχλῶν tôn kikhlôn
Dative	τῇ κῐ́χλῃ têi kíkhlēi	τοῖν κῐ́χλαιν toîn kíkhlain	ταῖς κῐ́χλαις taîs kíkhlais
Accusative	τὴν κῐ́χλην tḕn kíkhlēn	τὼ κῐ́χλᾱ tṑ kíkhlā	τᾱ̀ς κῐ́χλᾱς tā̀s kíkhlās
Vocative	κῐ́χλη kíkhlē	κῐ́χλᾱ kíkhlā	κῐ́χλαι kíkhlai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “κίχλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίχλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κίχλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κίχλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κίχλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • thrush idem, page 872.
• 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

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek κίχλη (kíkhlē, “thrush”).

Noun

κίχλη • (kíchli) f (plural κίχλες)

1. Turdus philomelos: song thrush

Declension

declension of κίχλη

case     \     number	singular	plural
nominative	κίχλη •	κίχλες •
genitive	κίχλης •	κιχλών •
accusative	κίχλη •	κίχλες •
vocative	κίχλη •	κίχλες •

Synonyms

• see: τσίχλα f (tsíchla, “thrush”)

Coordinate terms

• see: τσίχλα f (tsíchla, “thrush”) for other thrushes

Further reading

• κελαηδότσιχλα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el