ἴνδουρος
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
The similarity with Sanskrit उन्दुर (undura, “rat, mouse”) is rather accidental. For the ending, it can be compared σκίουρος (skíouros, “squirrel”), which must be a loan, perhaps from Pre-Greek
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ín.duː.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈin.du.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈin.du.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈin.du.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈin.du.ros/
Noun edit
ἴνδουρος • (índouros) m (genitive ἰνδούρου); second declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἴνδουρος ho índouros |
τὼ ἰνδούρω tṑ indoúrō |
οἱ ἴνδουροι hoi índouroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἰνδούρου toû indoúrou |
τοῖν ἰνδούροιν toîn indoúroin |
τῶν ἰνδούρων tôn indoúrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἰνδούρῳ tôi indoúrōi |
τοῖν ἰνδούροιν toîn indoúroin |
τοῖς ἰνδούροις toîs indoúrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἴνδουρον tòn índouron |
τὼ ἰνδούρω tṑ indoúrō |
τοὺς ἰνδούρους toùs indoúrous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἴνδουρε índoure |
ἰνδούρω indoúrō |
ἴνδουροι índouroi | ||||||||||
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Further reading edit
- “ἴνδουρος”, 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, →ISBN
- Hesychius' Lexicon: ι