The Ancient Macedonian word δαλάγχαν
| Word | δαλάγχαν |
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| IPA | ðalaɟkʰan |
| Meaning | sea |
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The origin of this word is unknown |
| See also |
Homeric Greek: θάλασσα
‘sea’ Doric Greek: δάλασσα ‘sea’ Epirotan Greek: δάξα ‘sea’ |
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Caution: Suspected to be Macedonian (See Henry S. Jones and Roderick McKenzie 1940), although Hesychius mentions nothing about it being Macedonian. The initial δ- instead of θ- doesn't make it Macedonian, as dialectical variations with an initial δ- exist within Greek. Furnée:195 notes that it is uncertain that δαλάγχαν is Macedonian. Beekes (2009) rejects the possibility of the word being Macedonian. |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| καλαῥῥυγαί ‘ditches, moats’, λείβηθρον ‘place name, spring, ditch, kennel’, σχερόν ‘wave’, σμώγη ‘drop, ox-tongue’, λαβά ‘drop’, βράγος ‘marsh-meadow, swamp, ’, Άλιάκμων ‘river name’, Βόρβορος ‘river name’, Ὄλγανος ‘river name, deity name’, ζέρεθρον ‘cleft, abyss, gulf, pit’, Λῡδίας ‘river name, place name’, καλαρρυϝά ‘ditch’ | |