| Word | πέλλη(ς) |
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| IPA | pe.llɛːς |
| Meaning | cow, oxen |
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Ancient Macedonian: πελλαῖον
‘grey, place name’ Proto-Indo-European: *pl̥hₓ- ‘pale, grey’ |
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Etymologicum Magnum
As Sturz (1808) notes the bovines in Macedonia must have been called like that because their dark color. |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| ἀλίη ‘boar’, πέχαρι ‘deer’, χάρων ‘lion’, γοτάν ‘swine’, ἵππος ‘horse’ | |