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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Together with Mycenaean Greek 𐀒𐀺 (ko-wo) borrowed from the Carian word for sheep attested as the glosses κοῖον (koîon) and κόον (kóon) in two scholia to the Iliad XIV, 255; ultimately a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).[1]
Noun
κῶας • (kôas) n (genitive —); third declension
- fleece
Inflection
Irregular declension of
τὸ κῶας; — (
Attic)
References
- ^ Simon, Zsolt (2017–) “κῶας”, in Olav Hackstein, Jared L. Miller & Elisabeth Rieken, editors, Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of the Minor Ancient Anatolian Corpus Languages (eDiAna), München & Marburg
Further reading
- “κῶας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κῶας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κῶας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κῶας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κῶας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 803, derive from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ṭq̇aw- (“hide, skin”), comparing especially *ṭq̇ow-, a Zan archetype of Kartvelian.