σπόγγος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • σφόγγος (sphóngos) (Attic)

Etymology

Together with Latin fungus (mushroom, fungus) and Old Armenian սունկն (sunkn, tree-mushroom) a Mediterranean–Pontic Pre-Greek substrate loanword.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

σπόγγος (spóngos) m (genitive σπόγγου); second declension

  1. sponge
  2. (anatomy) tonsil

Inflection

Descendants

  • Arabic: إِسْفَنْج (ʔisfanj)
    • Maltese: sfinġa
    • Libyan Arabic: سفنز (sfinz)
    • Moroccan Arabic: سفنج (sfanj)
    • Persian: اِسفَنج (esfanj)
      • Hindustani:
        Hindi: इस्फ़ंज (isfañj)
        Urdu: اسفنج (isfanj)
    • Sicilian: sfincia
  • Aramaic: אספוגא
  • Latin: spongia (see there for further descendants)
  • Hebrew: ספוג (səfog)
  • Old Armenian: սպունգ (spung)
  • Greek: σφουγγάρι (sfoungári)
    • Albanian: sfungjeri
    • Ottoman Turkish: سونگر (sünger)
      • Turkish: sünger
      • Albanian: sungjer
      • Algerian Arabic: [script needed] (sungāl)
      • Armenian: սունկար (sunkar), սյունկեր (syunker), սյունգյար (syungyar); սո̈ւնգէր (süngēr), սունգյա̈ր (sungyär); սիւնկէր (siwnkēr)
      • Azerbaijani: süngər
      • Bulgarian: сю́нгер (sjúnger)
      • Macedonian: сунѓер (sunǵer)
      • Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: су̀нђер
        Latin script: sùnđer

References

  1. Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 586–587

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