βήξ
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Furnée argues for a Pre-Greek origin, but the word might also be of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂s-, itself of imitative origin; βήξ (bḗx) could point to a protoform *gʷeh₂(s)-gʰ-.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bɛ̌ːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /be̝ks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βiks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /viks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /viks/
Noun
[edit]βήξ • (bḗx) m or f (genitive βηχός); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ βήξ ho, hē bḗx |
τὼ βῆχε tṑ bêkhe |
οἱ, αἱ βῆχες hoi, hai bêkhes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς βηχός toû, tês bēkhós |
τοῖν βηχοῖν toîn bēkhoîn |
τῶν βηχῶν tôn bēkhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ βηχῐ́ tôi, têi bēkhí |
τοῖν βηχοῖν toîn bēkhoîn |
τοῖς, ταῖς βηξῐ́ / βηξῐ́ν toîs, taîs bēxí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν βῆχᾰ tòn, tḕn bêkha |
τὼ βῆχε tṑ bêkhe |
τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς βῆχᾰς toùs, tā̀s bêkhas | ||||||||||
Vocative | βήξ bḗx |
βῆχε bêkhe |
βῆχες bêkhes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- βήσσω (bḗssō)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: βήχας (víchas)
Further reading
[edit]- “βήξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βήξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βήξ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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
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