κέρκα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word hardly belongs to κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”), as per Frisk. The word is rather Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈcer.ka/ → /ˈcer.ka/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈker.ka/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.ka/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.ka/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.ka/

Noun

κέρκα • (kérka)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: ἀκρίς (akrís, “grasshopper, locust”).

References

• “κέρκα”, 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: κ