ᾠόν

See also: ᾦον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὤοεν (ṓoen), ὤιον (ṓion) — Aeolic, poetic
• ὤβεον (ṓbeon) — Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *ōyyón, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), argued to have been a derivative of *h₂éwis (“bird”), whence also ᾱ̓ετός (āetós, “eagle”) and οἰωνός (oiōnós, “bird of prey”). Cognates include Latin ōvum, Persian خایه (xâye) and Old English ǣġ (English egg).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔːi̯.ón/ → /oˈon/ → /oˈon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔːi̯.ón/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈon/

Noun

ᾠόν • (ōión) n (genitive ᾠοῦ); second declension

1. egg
2. seed

Usage notes

• Along with πτερόν (pterón), λουτρόν (loutrón), ζυγόν (zugón) and ἑρπετόν (herpetón) this is one of the very few neuter nouns that does not have a recessive accent.

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ᾠόν; τοῦ ᾠοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ᾠόν tò ōión	τὼ ᾠώ tṑ ōiṓ	τᾰ̀ ᾠᾰ́ tà ōiá
Genitive	τοῦ ᾠοῦ toû ōioû	τοῖν ᾠοῖν toîn ōioîn	τῶν ᾠῶν tôn ōiôn
Dative	τῷ ᾠῷ tôi ōiôi	τοῖν ᾠοῖν toîn ōioîn	τοῖς ᾠοῖς toîs ōioîs
Accusative	τὸ ᾠόν tò ōión	τὼ ᾠώ tṑ ōiṓ	τᾰ̀ ᾠᾰ́ tà ōiá
Vocative	ᾠόν ōión	ᾠώ ōiṓ	ᾠᾰ́ ōiá
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ᾠοειδής (ōioeidḗs)
• ᾠώδης (ōiṓdēs)

Descendants

• Greek: αβγό n (avgó, “egg”)

Further reading

• “ᾠόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ᾠόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ᾠόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G5609 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.
  • egg idem, page 263.