κῶας
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editTogether with Mycenaean Greek 𐀒𐀺 (ko-wo) borrowed from the Carian word for sheep attested as the glosses κοῖον (koîon) and κόον (kóon) in two scholia to the Iliad XIV, 255; ultimately a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).[1]
Noun
editκῶας • (kôas) n (genitive —); third declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κῶας / κῶς tò kôas / kôs |
τᾰ̀ κώεᾰ tà kṓea | |||||||||||
Genitive | — | — | |||||||||||
Dative | — | τοῖς κώεσῐν toîs kṓesin | |||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κῶας / κῶς tò kôas / kôs |
τᾰ̀ κώεᾰ tà kṓea | |||||||||||
Vocative | κῶας / κῶς kôas / kôs |
κώεᾰ kṓea | |||||||||||
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References
editFurther reading
edit- “κῶας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κῶας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κῶας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κῶας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κῶας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 803, derive from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ṭq̇aw- (“hide, skin”), comparing especially *ṭq̇ow-, a Zan archetype of Kartvelian.
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- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension