Ancient Greek edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el-.[1] Compare Old Armenian սխալեմ (sxalem, to err), Sanskrit स्खलति (skhalati, to stumble) and possibly Latin fallō.

Pronunciation edit

 

Verb edit

σφᾰ́λλω (sphállō)

  1. (active voice)
    1. to topple, overthrow
    2. to kill
    3. to baffle
  2. (passive voice)
    1. to be foiled
    2. to fall, to be cast down (from a figurative or literal elevated place)
    3. to stagger, reel

Inflection edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Greek: σφάλλω (sfállo)

References edit

  • σφάλλω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • σφάλλω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “σφάλλω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1428

Greek edit

Verb edit

σφάλλω (sfállo) (past έσφαλα)

  1. to make a mistake, err, blunder, lapse

Conjugation edit

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

See also edit