ἀγάλοχον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀγαλίχον (agalíkhon), ἀγάλλοχον (agállokhon)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀓𑀺𑀮𑁰 (akil), from the same source as Arabic يَلَنْجُوج (yalanjūj), يَلَنْجَج (yalanjaj), يَلَنْجِيج (yalanjīj), أَلَنْجُوج (ʔalanjūj), أَلَنْجَج (ʔalanjaj), Biblical Hebrew אֲהָלִים (ʾăhālîm); compare அகில் (akil, “agarwood”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡá.lo.kʰon/ → /aˈɣa.lo.xon/ → /aˈɣa.lo.xon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ɡá.lo.kʰon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈɡa.lo.kʰon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣa.lo.xon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈɣa.lo.xon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈɣa.lo.xon/

Noun

ἀγᾰ́λοχον • (agálokhon) n (genitive ἀγᾰλόχου); second declension

1. agalloch (Aquilaria malaccensis)

   Synonym: ξυλᾱλόη (xulālóē)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἀγᾰ́λοχον; τοῦ ἀγᾰλόχου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἀγᾰ́λοχον tò agálokhon	τὼ ἀγᾰλόχω tṑ agalókhō	τᾰ̀ ἀγᾰ́λοχᾰ tà agálokha
Genitive	τοῦ ἀγᾰλόχου toû agalókhou	τοῖν ἀγᾰλόχοιν toîn agalókhoin	τῶν ἀγᾰλόχων tôn agalókhōn
Dative	τῷ ἀγᾰλόχῳ tôi agalókhōi	τοῖν ἀγᾰλόχοιν toîn agalókhoin	τοῖς ἀγᾰλόχοις toîs agalókhois
Accusative	τὸ ἀγᾰ́λοχον tò agálokhon	τὼ ἀγᾰλόχω tṑ agalókhō	τᾰ̀ ἀγᾰ́λοχᾰ tà agálokha
Vocative	ἀγᾰ́λοχον agálokhon	ἀγᾰλόχω agalókhō	ἀγᾰ́λοχᾰ agálokha
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Catalan: agàl·loc
• → English: agalloch

Further reading

• “ἀγάλοχον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀγάλοχον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀγάλοχον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[1] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 414