ὕρχη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, a technical word of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hýr.kʰɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)yr.kʰe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈyr.çi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈyr.çi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈir.çi/
Noun
ὕρχη • (húrkhē) f (genitive ὕρχης); first declension
- A jar for pickles or for wine
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ὕρχη; τῆς ὕρχης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὕρχη hē húrkhē | τὼ ὕρχᾱ tṑ húrkhā | αἱ ὕρχαι hai húrkhai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὕρχης tês húrkhēs | τοῖν ὕρχαιν toîn húrkhain | τῶν ὑρχῶν tôn hurkhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὕρχῃ têi húrkhēi | τοῖν ὕρχαιν toîn húrkhain | ταῖς ὕρχαις taîs húrkhais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὕρχην tḕn húrkhēn | τὼ ὕρχᾱ tṑ húrkhā | τᾱ̀ς ὕρχᾱς tā̀s húrkhās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὕρχη húrkhē | ὕρχᾱ húrkhā | ὕρχαι húrkhai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: orca
References
- ὕρχη 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