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1 πίγγαλος
Grammatical information: adj.Meaning: σαῦρος ὁ καλούμενος χαλκίς H.Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Identified with the semantically close Skt. (Ved.) pingalá- `reddish, brown-yellow' (Greek barytonesis substantivising; Prellwitz Glotta 19, 118). A variant is Skt. piñjára- `reddish yellow, goldcoloured'; further s. Mayrhofer s. vv. A formally comparable word ( πίγγα?, πίγγαν?) seems to be found in the following gloss: πιγγανεόσ-σιον. Άμερίας γλαυκόν (which one corrects into πίγγαν νεόσσιον). Further s. ποικίλος. - Comparison with Sanskrit words of this kind are mostly unreliable.Page in Frisk: 2,532-533Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > πίγγαλος
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