ἀλάβης
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unclear. Perhaps from Coptic ⲗⲉⲓϥⲓ (leifi, “fish of the Nile”). However, Furnée connects this word with similar names for fish, like ἔλλοψ (éllops) and ἀλλοπίᾱς (allopíās) and concludes that it is a Pre-Greek word.
Demotic lbs (“fish of the Nile”), and its successor Coptic ⲗⲁⲃⲏⲥ (labēs), is certainly a reborrowing from Greek.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈla.be̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈla.βis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈla.vis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈla.vis/
Noun edit
ἀλάβης • (alábēs) f (genitive ἀλάβητος); third declension
- A kind of fish that lives in the Nile (possibly Labeo niloticus)
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀλάβης hē alábēs |
τὼ ἀλάβητε tṑ alábēte |
αἱ ἀλάβητες hai alábētes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀλάβητος tês alábētos |
τοῖν ἀλαβήτοιν toîn alabḗtoin |
τῶν ἀλαβήτων tôn alabḗtōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀλάβητῐ têi alábēti |
τοῖν ἀλαβήτοιν toîn alabḗtoin |
ταῖς ἀλάβησῐ / ἀλάβησῐν taîs alábēsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀλάβητᾰ tḕn alábēta |
τὼ ἀλάβητε tṑ alábēte |
τᾱ̀ς ἀλάβητᾰς tā̀s alábētas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀλάβης alábēs |
ἀλάβητε alábēte |
ἀλάβητες alábētes | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 75
Further reading edit
- “ἀλάβης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀλάβης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀλάβης 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, page 71