ζεκελτίδες

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ζακελτίδες (zakeltídes)

Etymology

Unknown. Furnée compares θικέλιον (thikélion, “turnip”) and believes the word is Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zde.kel.tí.des/ → /ze.celˈti.ðes/ → /ze.celˈti.ðes/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zde.kel.tí.des/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ze.kelˈti.des/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ze.celˈti.ðes/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ze.celˈti.ðes/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ze.celˈti.ðes/

Noun

ζεκελτίδες • (zekeltídes)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: γογγυλίδες (gongulídes, “turnips”) or κολοκύνται (kolokúntai, “gourds”).

References

• “ζεκελτίδες”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: ζ