ὤγανον
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from a Paleo-Balkan language, derived from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to ride”),[1][2] for which compare Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, Proto-Celtic *wegnos (“wagon, cart”). Alternatively akin to ἄγω (ágō, “to drive”), though the formation is unclear.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔ̌ː.ɡa.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.ɡa.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ɣa.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ɣa.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.ɣa.non/
Noun
[edit]ὤγανον • (ṓganon) n
- spoke of the wagon wheel
- [5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Ω:
- ὤγανον· κνημίς ἁμάξης
- ṓganon; knēmís hamáxēs
- ṓganon: legging of the wagon]
Derived terms
[edit]- περιώγανα (periṓgana)
References
[edit]- ^ Blumenthal, Albrecht von (1930) Hesychstudien (in German), Stuttgart, page 7
- ^ Krahe, Hans (1955) Die Sprache der Illyrier (in German), volume I: Die Quellen, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 46
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὤγανον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1675
Further reading
[edit]- “ὤγανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press