κῶας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kow-a/o-, according to Gamkrelidze / Ivanov borrowed from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ṭq̇aw- (“hide, skin”); compare especially *ṭq̇ow-, a Zan archetype of Kartvelian.
Noun
κῶας • (kôas) n (genitive —); third declension
Inflection
| 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 | |||||||||||
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References
- “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