γῆ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γᾶ (gâ) — Doric
• ζᾶς (zâs) — Arcadocypriot

Etymology

From a pre-Indo-European Pre-Greek/substrate. The names Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr) and Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn) also Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀚𐀯𐀅𐀃𐀚 (e-ne-si-da-o-ne, “earthshaking (epithet of Poseidon)”) point to an alternative form *δᾶ (*dâ).

Pronunciation

Noun

γῆ • (gê) f (genitive γῆς); first declension

1. land, earth
2. country
3. soil

Declension

Derived terms

• γαῖα (gaîa, “earth”)
• εὔγειος (eúgeios)
• εὔγεως (eúgeōs)
• γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer”)
• Ἀνδρόγεως (Andrógeōs)
• γεωμετρία (geōmetría)
• γεωγραφία (geōgraphía)

Descendants

• Greek: γη (gi)

References

• 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

Further reading

• “γῆ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γῆ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “γῆ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• γῆ 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
• γῆ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• γῆ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1093 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • asia idem, page 44.
  • assume idem, page 47.
  • country idem, page 178.
  • domain idem, page 246.
  • dominion idem, page 247.
  • earth idem, page 259.
  • field idem, page 317.
  • gaea (earth regarded as a goddess) idem, page 351.
  • glebe idem, page 361.
  • globe idem, page 362.
  • ground idem, page 375.
  • land idem, page 475.
  • messene idem, page 527.
  • mould idem, page 543.
  • persia idem, page 607.
  • simois (river) idem, page 776.
  • soil idem, page 791.
  • terra firma idem, page 863.
  • territory idem, page 863.
  • teucri idem, page 863.
  • world idem, page 989.
• γῆ - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.