κέρκα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(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)

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

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