κῶας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Together with Mycenaean Greek 𐀒𐀺 (ko-wo) borrowed from the Carian word for sheep attested as the glosses κοῖον (koîon) and κόον (kóon) in two scholia to the Iliad XIV, 255; ultimately a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).

Noun

κῶας • (kôas) n (genitive —); third declension

1. fleece

Inflection

Irregular declension of τὸ κῶας; — (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῶας / κῶς tò kôas / kôs	τᾰ̀ κώεᾰ tà kṓea
Genitive	—	—
Dative	—	τοῖς κώεσῐν toîs kṓesin
Accusative	τὸ κῶας / κῶς tò kôas / kôs	τᾰ̀ κώεᾰ tà kṓea
Vocative	κῶας / κῶς kôas / kôs	κώεᾰ kṓea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κῶας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κῶας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κῶας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κῶας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κῶας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 803, derive from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ṭq̇aw- (“hide, skin”), comparing especially *ṭq̇ow-, a Zan archetype of Kartvelian.