The Ancient Macedonian word ἄργος
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| IPA | ̝árɟoς |
| Meaning | field, plain, valley |
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Proto-Indo-European: *ar(e)-ĝ-
‘glittering, bright, white, fast’ Thracian: argilos ‘mouse’ |
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A Thessalo-Macedonian word. Eustathios "ὡς νεώτεροι Μακεδόνες καὶ Θετταλοὶ Ἄργος καὶ τὸ ἁπλῶς πεδίον φασὶ, καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις δεδήλωται" Strabo "Ἄργος δὲ καὶ τὸ πεδίον λέγεται παρὰ τοῖς νεωτέροις, παρ᾽ Ὁμήρῳ δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἅπαξ: μάλιστα δ᾽ οἴονται Μακεδονικὸν καὶ Θετταλικὸν εἶναι."From PIE *arg- "bright, fast" etc in the sense of a "clearing, glade". |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| Ἄθως ‘mountain name’, ἄξος ‘wood, timber, lumber’, δάρυλλος ‘oak’, καλαῥῥυγαί ‘ditches, moats’, Κισσοῦς ‘mountain name’, Νῦσα ‘mountain name’, λείβηθρον ‘place name, spring, ditch, kennel’, Πέτρα ‘place name, stone’, καλαρρυϝά ‘ditch’ | |