κολοιός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Onomatopoeic origin cannot be further substantiated; neither does the word belong to καλέω (kaléō, “to call, summon”). It would be highly unsatisfactory to separate κολῳός (kolōiós, “brawling”) from this word, but an explanation of the notation with -ῳ- has not been found. Confront also κολουᾶν (kolouân, “to make noise”) and κολοίφρυξ (koloíphrux, “Tanagrian cock”). These variants may prove a origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.loi̯.ós/ → /ko.lyˈos/ → /ko.liˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.loi̯.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.lyˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.lyˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.lyˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.liˈos/

Noun

κολοιός • (koloiós) m (genitive κολοιοῦ); second declension

1. jackdaw (Coloeus monedula)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κολοιός; τοῦ κολοιοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κολοιός ho koloiós	τὼ κολοιώ tṑ koloiṓ	οἱ κολοιοί hoi koloioí
Genitive	τοῦ κολοιοῦ toû koloioû	τοῖν κολοιοῖν toîn koloioîn	τῶν κολοιῶν tôn koloiôn
Dative	τῷ κολοιῷ tôi koloiôi	τοῖν κολοιοῖν toîn koloioîn	τοῖς κολοιοῖς toîs koloioîs
Accusative	τὸν κολοιόν tòn koloión	τὼ κολοιώ tṑ koloiṓ	τοὺς κολοιούς toùs koloioús
Vocative	κολοιέ koloié	κολοιώ koloiṓ	κολοιοί koloioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κολοιάω (koloiáō)
• κολοιή (koloiḗ)
• κολοιώδης (koloiṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Translingual: Coloeus

Further reading

• “κολοιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κολοιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN