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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the word is not related to Thessalian place names Γόννος (Gónnos), Γόννοι (Gónnoi) and Γονοῦσσα (Gonoûssa), nor to γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), and is instead Pre-Greek word, in view of the variations.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡuː.nós/ → /ɣuˈnos/ → /ɣuˈnos/
Noun
γουνός • (gounós) m (genitive γουνοῦ); second declension
- fruitful land, terrace
- hill, height, elevated place
Inflection
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References
- “γουνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γουνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “γουνός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- γουνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γουνός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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