οἰρών
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- οἱρών (hoirṓn)
Etymology
Schulze compare the word with Sanskrit सीता (sītā, “furrow”), सीर (sīra, “plough”) and सीमा (sīmā, “frontier, boundary, edge”), which is semantically and formally quite possible. Beekes suggests a common derivation from Proto-Indo-European *soHi-r- (“furrow”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /oi̯.rɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /yˈron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /yˈron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /yˈron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈron/
Noun
οἰρών • (oirṓn) m (genitive οἰρῶνος); third declension
- furrow of a plough
- Synonym: αὖλαξ (aûlax)
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ οἰρών; τοῦ οἰρῶνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ οἰρών ho oirṓn | τὼ οἰρῶνε tṑ oirône | οἱ οἰρῶνες hoi oirônes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ οἰρῶνος toû oirônos | τοῖν οἰρώνοιν toîn oirṓnoin | τῶν οἰρώνων tôn oirṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ οἰρῶνῐ tôi oirôni | τοῖν οἰρώνοιν toîn oirṓnoin | τοῖς οἰρῶσῐ / οἰρῶσῐν toîs oirôsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν οἰρῶνᾰ tòn oirôna | τὼ οἰρῶνε tṑ oirône | τοὺς οἰρῶνᾰς toùs oirônas | ||||||||||
Vocative | οἰρών oirṓn | οἰρῶνε oirône | οἰρῶνες oirônes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- οἰρών 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