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ἄγκῡρα

agkura

anchor

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Where it lives

Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Acts 3 · 1.67/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Histories 6 · 0.33/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ἄγκῦρα · ankyra — Beekes

ἄγκῦρα [f.] ‘anchor’ (Alc.). eDER Dervatives are scarce: ἀγκυρωτός ‘anchor-shaped’ (Ph. Bel.), ἀγκύριον (Ph. Bel.), ἀγκυρίζω ἵν.) ‘to make sbd. stumble’ (old com.). eETYM The suffix -ipa is typically Pre-Greek, as in γέφῦρα, yépydpa; it therefore does not continue an inherited formation *-ur-ia-. Borrowed as Lat. ancora. — [Beekes, s.v. ἄγκῦρα, p. 60]

2. ἄγκυρα · ankyra — Frisk

ἄγκυρα. Daraus nind., z.B. maräthi nängar “Anker” (über das Dravidische), s. Mayrhofer A.I.O.N. 1 (1959) 232. — [Frisk, s.v. ἄγκυρα, p. 2143]

3. ἄγκῡρα · ankyra — LSJ

anchor, anchor, anchor, anchor

anchor, Alc. 18.9 (v. ἄγκοινα), Thgn. 459; ἄ. βάλλεσθαι, καθιέναι, μεθιέναι, ἀφιέναι to cast anchor, Pi. I. 6(5).13, Hdt. 7.36, A. Ch. 662, X. An. 3.5.10; ἄ. αἴρειν, αἴρεσθαι to weigh anchor, Plu. Pomp. 50, 80; ἀνέλοιο AP 10.1 (Leon.); τὰς νέας ἔχειν ἐπʼ ἀγκυρέων Hdt. 6.12; ὁρμίζειν Th. 7.59; ἐπʼ ἀγκυρέων ὁρμεῖν ride at anchor, Hdt. 7.188; νηῦς μιῆς ἐπ ἀγκύρης [οὐκ ἀσφ]αλὴς ὁρμεῦσα Herod. 1.41; ἐπ ἀγκύρας ἀποσαλεύειν D. 50.22, cf. E. Hel. 1071; prov., ἀγαθαὶ πέλοντʼ . . δύʼ ἄγκυραι ʼtis good to

II pruning-hook

pruning-hook, Thphr. CP 3.2.2.

III

= αἰδοῖον, Epich. 191.

In the wild

ἄγκυραν · ankyran Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 660–662
ἄγκυραν · ankyran Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
ἄγκυράν · ankyran Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.8 (DIORISIS sentence 908)
ἄγκυρʼ · ankyrʼ Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 28)
ἄγκυραν · ankyran Euripides, Helen *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 1044)
ἄγκυρα · ankyra Euripides, Helen *(ele/nh (DIORISIS sentence 166)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἄγκῡρα (scan p. 60; entry #97).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἄγκῡρα (scan p. 2143; entry #6277).

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