The Ancient Macedonian word καλαρρυϝά
| Word | καλαρρυϝά |
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| Transliteration | kalarrywa |
| Meaning | ditch |
| Notes/Remarks |
This word is a feminine |
| See also |
Ancient Macedonian: καλαῥῥυγαί
‘ditches, moats’ |
| Synonyms | λείβηθρον |
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Comments |
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| Hoffmann (1906) and Kretschmer (1896) consider this as the real form of καλαῥῥυγαί. It is assumed that the word was trasmitted wrongly by scribes that mixed F (digamma) with Γ (gamma). | |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| Ἄθως ‘mountain name’, ἄξος ‘wood, timber, lumber’, δάρυλλος ‘oak’, δαλάγχαν ‘sea’, Κισσοῦς ‘mountain name’, Νῦσα ‘mountain name’, σχερόν ‘wave’, σμώγη ‘drop, ox-tongue’, Πέτρα ‘place name, stone’, λαβά ‘drop’, βράγος ‘marsh-meadow, swamp, ’, Άλιάκμων ‘river name’, Βόρβορος ‘river name’, Ὄλγανος ‘river name, deity name’, ἄργος ‘field, plain, valley’, ζέρεθρον ‘cleft, abyss, gulf, pit’, Λῡδίας ‘river name, place name’ | |