ναρκίον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
DELG considers connection with λάρκος (lárkos, “charcoal basket”) and perhaps νάρναξ (nárnax, “box, chest, coffer”), and rejects the connection with νάρκη (nárkē, “numbness”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nar.kí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /narˈki.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /narˈci.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /narˈci.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /narˈci.on/
Noun
ναρκίον • (narkíon)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: ἀσκόν (askón, “skin, wineskin, bellows”).
Further reading
- “ναρκίον”, 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: ν
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