μέλκιον
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. Only attested as a gloss in Hesychius.
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-, with cognates such as Old Church Slavonic млѣко (mlěko), Lithuanian malkas, and Latvian malks.
Pronunciation edit
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmel.ci.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmel.ci.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmel.ci.on/
Noun edit
μέλκιον • (mélkion)
- (hapax) spring, fountain
- Synonym: κρήνη (krḗnē)
- 5th century C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Μ:
- μέλκιον· κρήνη. νύμφαι. παίγνιον
- mélkion; krḗnē. númphai. paígnion
- mélkion: spring (in: "Nymphs" (poem))
Further reading edit
- “μέλκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μέλκιον - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- Hesychius' Lexicon: μ