κάρυον
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of unclear origin.
Traditionally compared with Latin carīna (“ship's keel; shell of a nut”) and Sanskrit करक (karaka, “water jar; coconut (shell)”). The Latin term is likely cognate, though whether via borrowing from Greek, a common third source, or via inheritance (traditionally taken as Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“hard”), whose existence has been doubted, including by Beekes) is uncertain, while the Sanskrit term is more dubious, particularly as the "coconut shell" meaning is listed as lexicographic, indicating that it may not have been the primary meaning.
Based on the Hesychian variant ἄρυα (árua, “Heraclitean nut”) displaying a κ-/∅ interchange in the initial, Beekes takes the word as Pre-Greek.[1]
An alternative theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head”). Cognates include English harns, Old Norse hjarni, Latin cerebrum (all three meaning 'brain') and Avestan 𐬯𐬁𐬭𐬀 (sāra), Persian سر (sar) and Sanskrit शिरस् (śiras) (all three meaning 'head'). See as well κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “skull”), κέρας (kéras, “horn”) and κᾰ́ρᾱ (kárā, “face”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.ry.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.ry.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ry.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ry.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.ri.on/
Noun
[edit]κᾰ́ρῠον • (káruon) n (genitive κᾰρῠ́ου); second declension
- nut (hard-shelled seed)
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κᾰ́ρῠον tò káruon |
τὼ κᾰρῠ́ω tṑ karúō |
τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρῠᾰ tà kárua | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κᾰρῠ́ου toû karúou |
τοῖν κᾰρῠ́οιν toîn karúoin |
τῶν κᾰρῠ́ων tôn karúōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κᾰρῠ́ῳ tôi karúōi |
τοῖν κᾰρῠ́οιν toîn karúoin |
τοῖς κᾰρῠ́οις toîs karúois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κᾰ́ρῠον tò káruon |
τὼ κᾰρῠ́ω tṑ karúō |
τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρῠᾰ tà kárua | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́ρῠον káruon |
κᾰρῠ́ω karúō |
κᾰ́ρῠᾰ kárua | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- κᾰρῡ́δῐον (karū́dion)
- καρύϊνος (karúïnos)
- Ποντικόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάρυον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 651
Further reading
[edit]- “κάρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάρυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάρυον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κάρυον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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