πελαργός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The origin is Pre-Greek. Folk-etymologically explained as πελλός (pellós, “dark”) +‎ ἀργός (argós, “white”). Has been linked with Old Armenian արագիլ (aragil).

Witczak (1991) suggests that the word is a compound, with second term continuing otherwise unattested *ἁργός (*hargós), from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”), akin e.g. to Proto-Germanic *sturkaz (“stork”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

πελᾱργός • (pelārgós) m (genitive πελᾱργοῦ); second declension

  1. stork

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ πελᾱργός; τοῦ πελᾱργοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ πελᾱργός
ho pelārgós		 τὼ πελᾱργώ
tṑ pelārgṓ		 οἱ πελᾱργοί
hoi pelārgoí
Genitive τοῦ πελᾱργοῦ
toû pelārgoû		 τοῖν πελᾱργοῖν
toîn pelārgoîn		 τῶν πελᾱργῶν
tôn pelārgôn
Dative τῷ πελᾱργῷ
tôi pelārgôi		 τοῖν πελᾱργοῖν
toîn pelārgoîn		 τοῖς πελᾱργοῖς
toîs pelārgoîs
Accusative τὸν πελᾱργόν
tòn pelārgón		 τὼ πελᾱργώ
tṑ pelārgṓ		 τοὺς πελᾱργούς
toùs pelārgoús
Vocative πελᾱργέ
pelārgé		 πελᾱργώ
pelārgṓ		 πελᾱργοί
pelārgoí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: πελαργός (pelargós)
  • → Arabic: بِلَّارِج (billārij) (Tunisian, Algerian, Moroccan)
  • → Classical Syriac: ܦܝܠܪܓܐ (pīlargā)

Further reading
  • “πελαργός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “πελαργός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • πελαργός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1165
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “արագիլ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 292–293
  • Lagarde, Paul de (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 225, page 19
  • Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz. 1991. "Indo-European *sr̥C in Germanic". Historische Sprachforschung 104:1, pp. 106–107.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

πελαργός • (pelargós) m (plural πελαργοί)

  1. stork (bird)

Declension
declension of πελαργός
case     \     number singular plural
nominative πελαργός • πελαργοί •
genitive πελαργού • πελαργών •
accusative πελαργό • πελαργούς •
vocative πελαργέ • πελαργοί •

See also

Further reading
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