πελεκάν
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Derived from πέλεκυς (pélekus, “axe”), because of the functional and/or formal similarity with an axe. Compare similar bird names, like πελεκανός (pelekanós, “coot”), πελεκᾶς (pelekâs, “woodpecker”) and πελεκῖνος (pelekînos, “pelican”). Furnée compares σπέλεκτος (spélektos, “pelican”), suggesting a Pre-Greek etymology.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.le.kán/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pe.leˈkan/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pe.leˈkan/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pe.leˈkan/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pe.leˈkan/
Noun edit
πελεκᾰ́ν • (pelekán) m (genitive πελεκᾶνος); third declension
- pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
- Synonyms: ὀνοκρότᾰλος (onokrótalos), πελεκῖνος (pelekînos)
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πελεκᾰ́ν ho pelekán |
τὼ πελεκᾶνε tṑ pelekâne |
οἱ πελεκᾶνες hoi pelekânes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πελεκᾶνος toû pelekânos |
τοῖν πελεκᾱ́νοιν toîn pelekā́noin |
τῶν πελεκᾱ́νων tôn pelekā́nōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πελεκᾶνῐ tôi pelekâni |
τοῖν πελεκᾱ́νοιν toîn pelekā́noin |
τοῖς πελεκᾶσῐ / πελεκᾶσῐν toîs pelekâsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πελεκᾶνᾰ tòn pelekâna |
τὼ πελεκᾶνε tṑ pelekâne |
τοὺς πελεκᾶνᾰς toùs pelekânas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πελεκᾰ́ν pelekán |
πελεκᾶνε pelekâne |
πελεκᾶνες pelekânes | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “πελεκάν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πελεκάν 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