χάβος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Clearly related to χαμόν (khamón, “bent, curved”). The variation "μ/β" leads to a Pre-Greek origin. Traditionally compared also to Latin hāmus (“fish-hook”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰá.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰa.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈxa.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈxa.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈxa.vos/
Further reading
- “χάβος”, 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: χ
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