The Phrygian word ΑΓΚΥΡΑ
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| Transliteration | agkyra |
| Meaning | city of phrygia, anchor |
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Greek: άγκουρα
‘anchor’ Greek: άγκυρα ‘anchor’ Greek: άγκιστρον ‘hook’ Greek: ἀγκύλος ‘crooked’ Proto-Indo-European: *ank-2, ang- ‘to bend, bow, curve, snake coil, anchor’ Old Norse: akkeri ‘anchor’ Hattic: Ḫaniku ‘place name, town name’ |
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Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 4. 5 Ancyra, a city of the Phrygians, which Midas son of Gordius had founded in former time. And the anchor, which Midas found, was even as late as my time in the sanctuary of Zeus, as well as a spring called the Spring of Midas, water from which they say Midas mixed with wine to capture Silenus. Well then, the Pergameni took Ancyra and Pessinus which lies under Mount Agdistis, where they say that Attis lies buried. |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| ΖΕΤΝΑ ‘gate’, ΑΚΑΡΑΓΑJΥΝ ‘sarcophagus, stair-way, part of the monument’, ΓΟΡΔ- ‘town, city, yard’, ΚΙΝΝΑ ‘personal name, town name’ | |