ὀξύα
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s- and, so, cognate with Proto-Germanic *askaz (“ash tree”), Old Armenian հացի (hacʻi, “ash tree”) and Albanian ah (“beech”). The Indo-European character of these words is far from sure, despite the tradition to compare them. The vocalic variation in Greek, which is not sufficiently explained by assuming the intervention of ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”), may in principle also point to a Pre-Greek word. Compare Ancient Macedonian ἄξος (áxos, “a kind of wood”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ok.sý.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /okˈsy.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /okˈsy.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /okˈsy.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /okˈsi.a/
Noun edit
ὀξύᾱ • (oxúā) f (genitive ὀξύᾱς); first declension
- beech (Fagus sylvatica)
- spear made from its wood
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὀξύᾱ hē oxúā |
τὼ ὀξύᾱ tṑ oxúā |
αἱ ὀξύαι hai oxúai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὀξύᾱς tês oxúās |
τοῖν ὀξύαιν toîn oxúain |
τῶν ὀξυῶν tôn oxuôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὀξύᾳ têi oxúāi |
τοῖν ὀξύαιν toîn oxúain |
ταῖς ὀξύαις taîs oxúais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὀξύᾱν tḕn oxúān |
τὼ ὀξύᾱ tṑ oxúā |
τᾱ̀ς ὀξύᾱς tā̀s oxúās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀξύᾱ oxúā |
ὀξύᾱ oxúā |
ὀξύαι oxúai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Greek: οξιά (oxiá)
References edit
- “ὀξύα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὀξύα 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