ὗς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σῦς (sûs) — verse

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sew-?

Proto-Indo-European *sewH-?

Proto-Indo-European *suH-

Proto-Hellenic *hūs

Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs)

Inherited from Proto-Hellenic *hūs, from Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“swine”). Compare Latin sūs, English swine, and sow.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hŷːs/ → /ys/ → /is/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hŷːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /is/

Noun

ὗς • (hûs) m or f (genitive ὑός); third declension

1. pig, swine, hog

Inflection

Irregular declension of ὁ, ἡ ὗς; τοῦ, τῆς ὑός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ ὗς ho, hē hûs	τὼ ὕε tṑ húe	οἱ, αἱ ὕες hoi, hai húes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς ὑός toû, tês huós	τοῖν ὑοῖν toîn huoîn	τῶν ὑῶν tôn huôn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ ὑΐ tôi, têi huḯ	τοῖν ὑοῖν toîn huoîn	τοῖς, ταῖς ὑσί / ὑσίν toîs, taîs husí(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν ὗν tòn, tḕn hûn	τὼ ὕε tṑ húe	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ὗς toùs, tā̀s hûs
Vocative	ὗ hû	ὕε húe	ὕες húes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Irregular declension of ὗς; ὑός (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὗς hûs	ὕε húe	ὕες húes
Genitive	ὑός huós	ὑοῖν huoîn	ὑῶν huôn
Dative	ὑΐ huḯ	ὑοῖν huoîn	ὑσί / ὑσίν / ῠ̔́εσσι husí(n) / hŭ́essi
Accusative	ὗν hûn	ὕε húe	ὗς hûs
Vocative	ὗ hû	ὕε húe	ὕες húes
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

• ὕαινα (húaina)
• ὕνις (húnis)
• ὑόφθᾰλμος (huóphthălmos)
• Ὕσπορος (Húsporos)

Further reading

• “ὗς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὗς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὗς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὗς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὗς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὗς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5300 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 612