ᾠόν
Appearance
See also: ᾦον
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *ōyyón, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), argued to have been a derivative of *h₂éwis (“bird”), whence also ᾱ̓ετός (āetós, “eagle”) and οἰωνός (oiōnós, “bird of prey”). Cognates include Latin ōvum, Persian خایه (xâye) and Old English ǣġ (English egg).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔːi̯.ón/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈon/
Noun
[edit]ᾠόν • (ōión) n (genitive ᾠοῦ); second declension
Usage notes
[edit]- Along with πτερόν (pterón), λουτρόν (loutrón), ζυγόν (zugón) and ἑρπετόν (herpetón), this is one of the very few neuter nouns that does not have a recessive accent.
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ᾠόν tò ōión |
τὼ ᾠώ tṑ ōiṓ |
τᾰ̀ ᾠᾰ́ tà ōiá | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾠοῦ toû ōioû |
τοῖν ᾠοῖν toîn ōioîn |
τῶν ᾠῶν tôn ōiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾠῷ tôi ōiôi |
τοῖν ᾠοῖν toîn ōioîn |
τοῖς ᾠοῖς toîs ōioîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ᾠόν tò ōión |
τὼ ᾠώ tṑ ōiṓ |
τᾰ̀ ᾠᾰ́ tà ōiá | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾠόν ōión |
ᾠώ ōiṓ |
ᾠᾰ́ ōiá | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- ⇒ Greek: αβγό n (avgó, “egg”) (from rebracketing with the article)
- ⇒ Pontic Greek: ωβό n (ovó), ωβόν (ovón), ωβγόν (ovgón), ωβγό (ovgó), εβγό (evgó), 'βό ('vó)
Further reading
[edit]- “ᾠόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ᾠόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ᾠόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G5609 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.
- egg idem, page 263.
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- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension