ὤρυγγες

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée compares ὄρυξ (órux, “gazelle”). The prenasalized suffix -υγγ- seemes to point to a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.ryŋ.ɡes/ → /ˈo.ryɲ.ɟes/ → /ˈo.riɲ.ɟes/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.ryŋ.ɡes/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ryŋ.ɡes/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ryɲ.ɟes/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ryɲ.ɟes/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.riɲ.ɟes/

Noun

ὤρῠγγες • (ṓrunges) m pl (genitive ὠρῠ́γγων); third declension

1. striped or piebald horses, including zebras

Declension

Third declension of οἱ ὤρῠγγες; τῶν ὠρῠ́γγων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	οἱ ὤρῠγγες hoi ṓrunges
Genitive	τῶν ὠρῠ́γγων tôn ōrúngōn
Dative	τοῖς ὤρῠγξῐ / ὤρῠγξῐν toîs ṓrunxi(n)
Accusative	τοὺς ὤρῠγγᾰς toùs ṓrungas
Vocative	ὤρῠγγες ṓrunges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὤρυγγες”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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