The Ancient Macedonian word καλαῥῥυγαί
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| IPA | kalar̥r̥yɟaj. |
| Meaning | ditches, moats |
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Homeric Greek: κελαδέω
‘sound as flowing water’ Homeric Greek: κελαρύζω ‘babble, murmur’ Epirotan Greek: καλαρύαν ‘water-pipe, sewer’ Doric Greek: καλαρῖνες ‘water-pipe, sewer’ Ancient Macedonian: καλαρρυϝά ‘ditch’ |
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Amerias (through Hesychius) The presence of Γ could be a misspelling of F (digamma). Probably related to similar north-western Greek words and the verb κελαρύζω. See Hoffman (1906), Kretschmer (1896), Filos (2015) |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| Ἄθως ‘mountain name’, ἄξος ‘wood, timber, lumber’, δάρυλλος ‘oak’, δαλάγχαν ‘sea’, Κισσοῦς ‘mountain name’, Νῦσα ‘mountain name’, λείβηθρον ‘place name, spring, ditch, kennel’, σχερόν ‘wave’, σμώγη ‘drop, ox-tongue’, Πέτρα ‘place name, stone’, λαβά ‘drop’, βράγος ‘marsh-meadow, swamp, ’, Άλιάκμων ‘river name’, Βόρβορος ‘river name’, Ὄλγανος ‘river name, deity name’, ἄργος ‘field, plain, valley’, ζέρεθρον ‘cleft, abyss, gulf, pit’, Λῡδίας ‘river name, place name’ | |