κήξ
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Has been compared with bird names like Middle Welsh cuan (“screech-owl”) and other Celtic words, whence Latin cāvannus (“tawny owl”). Within Greek, one also finds forms with internal velar, like καυκαλίας (kaukalías, “kind of bird”), with which are compared Lithuanian kaukȳs (“kind of bird”) and primary verbs like Sanskrit कौति (kauti, “to cry, hum”) and Lithuanian kaūkti (“to howl, moan”). However, according to Beekes, the word is Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛ̌ːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ke̝ks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciks/
Noun edit
κήξ • (kḗx) f (genitive κηκός); third declension
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κήξ hē kḗx |
τὼ κῆκε tṑ kêke |
αἱ κῆκες hai kêkes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κηκός tês kēkós |
τοῖν κηκοῖν toîn kēkoîn |
τῶν κηκῶν tôn kēkôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κηκῐ́ têi kēkí |
τοῖν κηκοῖν toîn kēkoîn |
ταῖς κηξῐ́ / κηξῐ́ν taîs kēxí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῆκᾰ tḕn kêka |
τὼ κῆκε tṑ kêke |
τᾱ̀ς κῆκᾰς tā̀s kêkas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κήξ kḗx |
κῆκε kêke |
κῆκες kêkes | ||||||||||
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Further reading edit
- “κήξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κήξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κήξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κήξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κήξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “καύαξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 658–659