χείρ

See also: χειρ and χειρ-

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰesr- (“hand”). Cognate with Old Armenian ձեռն (jeṙn), Old Persian 𐎭𐎿𐎫 (dasta), Albanian dorë (“hand”), Tocharian A tsar, and Latin hir (“hand”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰěːr/ → /çir/ → /çir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰěːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰir/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çir/

• Audio (Classical Attic):

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Noun

χείρ • (kheír) f (genitive χειρός); third declension

1. hand

Declension

Third declension of ἡ χείρ; τῆς χειρός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χείρ hē kheír	τὼ χεῖρε tṑ kheîre	αἱ χεῖρες hai kheîres
Genitive	τῆς χειρός tês kheirós	τοῖν χεροῖν toîn kheroîn	τῶν χερῶν / χειρῶν tôn kherôn / kheirôn
Dative	τῇ χειρῐ́ têi kheirí	τοῖν χεροῖν toîn kheroîn	ταῖς χερσί / χερσίν / χείρεσσι / χείρεσσιν taîs khersí(n) / kheíressi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χεῖρᾰ tḕn kheîra	τὼ χεῖρε tṑ kheîre	τᾱ̀ς χεῖρᾰς tā̀s kheîras
Vocative	χείρ kheír	χεῖρε kheîre	χεῖρες kheîres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἑκατόγχειρος (hekatónkheiros)
• χειροδόσῐον (kheirodósion)
• Χειρίσοφος (Kheirísophos)

Descendants

• English: chiro-, chiral, chirality
• Greek: χειρ (cheir), χέρι (chéri)

References

• “χείρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χείρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χείρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χείρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χείρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χείρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5495 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 382