According to Beekes, connected with the group ofκαλύπτω(kalúptō,“to cover”), with aPre-Greek suffix.

κέλῡφος• (kélūphos) n (genitiveκελῡ́φους);third declension

1. sheath,case
2. (botany)pod,shell
3. (zoology)envelop of achrysalis
4. eggshell
5. (anatomy)hollow of theeye

• Greek:κέλυφος(kélyfos)

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

κέλυφος• (kélyfos) n (pluralκελύφη)

1. shell(of mollusks, crustaceans, etc)
2. eggshell
3. nutshell
4. shell,casing(around instrument or mechanism)

• (eggshell, nutshell):τσόφλι n(tsófli)
• (seashell):κοχύλι n(kochýli)

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