βύας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“owl”), see also Latin būbō, Bulgarian буч (buč), Old Armenian բուէճ (buēč), and Persian بوم (bum). The Indo-European root is onomatopoeic and was borrowed into Semitic languages such as Arabic بُوم (būm) and Classical Syriac ܒܐܘܐ (baʾwāʾ) and Caucasian languages such as Old Georgian ბუვი (buvi), Chechen бухӏа (buha), and Aghul бугьу (buhu).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈβy.as/ → /ˈvi.as/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈby.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβy.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvy.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.as/

Noun

βύᾱς • (búās) m (genitive βύου); first declension

1. eagle owl

Inflection

First declension of ὁ βύᾱς; τοῦ βύου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βύᾱς ho búās	τὼ βύᾱ tṑ búā	οἱ βύαι hoi búai
Genitive	τοῦ βύου toû búou	τοῖν βύαιν toîn búain	τῶν βυῶν tôn buôn
Dative	τῷ βύᾳ tôi búāi	τοῖν βύαιν toîn búain	τοῖς βύαις toîs búais
Accusative	τὸν βύᾱν tòn búān	τὼ βύᾱ tṑ búā	τοὺς βύᾱς toùs búās
Vocative	βύᾱ búā	βύᾱ búā	βύαι búai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “βύας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βύας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βύας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)