τήνελλα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τήνεβλα (tḗnebla)

Etymology

Unknown. Said to be a word formed by Archilochus to imitate the twang of a guitar-string.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̌ː.nel.la/ → /ˈti.nel.la/ → /ˈti.ne.la/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tɛ̌ː.nel.la/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈte̝.nel.la/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.nel.la/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.nel.la/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ne.la/

Interjection

τήνελλα • (tḗnella)

1. hurrah

Derived terms

• τήνελλος (tḗnellos)

Further reading

• “τήνελλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τήνελλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τήνελλα 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