φώκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of unknown origin. According to Beekes, Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ː.kɛː/ → /ˈɸo.ci/ → /ˈfo.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ː.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰo.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ci/

Noun

φώκη • (phṓkē) f (genitive φώκης); first declension

1. seal (marine animal)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φώκη; τῆς φώκης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φώκη hē phṓkē	τὼ φώκᾱ tṑ phṓkā	αἱ φῶκαι hai phôkai
Genitive	τῆς φώκης tês phṓkēs	τοῖν φώκαιν toîn phṓkain	τῶν φωκῶν tôn phōkôn
Dative	τῇ φώκῃ têi phṓkēi	τοῖν φώκαιν toîn phṓkain	ταῖς φώκαις taîs phṓkais
Accusative	τὴν φώκην tḕn phṓkēn	τὼ φώκᾱ tṑ phṓkā	τᾱ̀ς φώκᾱς tā̀s phṓkās
Vocative	φώκη phṓkē	φώκᾱ phṓkā	φῶκαι phôkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: φώκια (fókia)
• → Latin: phōca (see there for further descendants), phōcē
• → Old Armenian: փոկ (pʻok)
• → Serbo-Croatian: fȍka/фо̏ка
• → Classical Syriac: ܦܘܩܐ (pōqē)

References

• “φώκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φώκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “φώκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• φώκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• φώκη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • seal idem, page 746.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1600