πέρκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Old Irish erc (“perch, salmon”) (from Proto-Celtic *ɸerkos) and Proto-Germanic *furhnō (“trout”). Related also to περκνός (perknós, “dusky”) and πέρκος (pérkos, “kind of hawk”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pér.kɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈper.ke̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈper.ci/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈper.ci/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈper.ci/

Noun

πέρκη • (pérkē) f (genitive πέρκης); first declension

perch (Perca fluviatilis)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πέρκη; τῆς πέρκης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πέρκη hē pérkē	τὼ πέρκᾱ tṑ pérkā	αἱ πέρκαι hai pérkai
Genitive	τῆς πέρκης tês pérkēs	τοῖν πέρκαιν toîn pérkain	τῶν περκῶν tôn perkôn
Dative	τῇ πέρκῃ têi pérkēi	τοῖν πέρκαιν toîn pérkain	ταῖς πέρκαις taîs pérkais
Accusative	τὴν πέρκην tḕn pérkēn	τὼ πέρκᾱ tṑ pérkā	τᾱ̀ς πέρκᾱς tā̀s pérkās
Vocative	πέρκη pérkē	πέρκᾱ pérkā	πέρκαι pérkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Armenian: պերկես (perkes)
→ Latin: perca
- → English: perch

References

“πέρκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πέρκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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