πέλεκυς

Compare Sanskrit परशु (paraśú, “axe”) and Ossetian фӕрӕт (færæt, “axe”). This word often considered a Wanderwort, with similarity to Akkadian 𒁄 (pilakku, pilaqqu, “wooden handle; spindle, harp”), itself from Sumerian 𒁄 (balag, “wooden handle; spindle, harp; possibly a split piece of wood or wooden wedge”); compare Arabic فَلَقَ (falaqa, “to split apart”) and πέλεκκον (pélekkon, “axe handle”). This has led some to suggest that the Proto-Indo-European terms are ultimately borrowed through the Akkadian or a Semitic source. Furnée points to βέλεκκος (bélekkos, “kind of pulse”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin.

πέλεκῠς • (pélekus) m (genitive πελέκεως); third declension

1. two-edged axe for felling trees
2. battle axe, executioner's axe

• Greek: πέλεκυς (pélekys)

• “πέλεκυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πέλεκυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πέλεκυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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

From Ancient Greek πέλεκυς (pélekus), cognate with Sanskrit परशु (paraśú, “axe”), which would reflect Proto-Indo-European *peleḱús if reconstructed back to PIE.[1] Beekes suggested a Pre-Greek origin.[2] Compare also German Beil (“axe”) as well as Hungarian and Turkish balta, both meaning "axe."

πέλεκυς • (pélekys) m (plural πελέκεις)

1. battle axe, double-headed axe

• πελέκι n (peléki, “axe”)
• τσεκούρι n (tsekoúri, “axe”)

• Kaulins, Ancient Signs: The Alphabet and the Origins of Writing
• πέλεκυς on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el