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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to punch”), the same root of πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist-fight”) and Latin pugnus (“fist”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /py.ɡɔ̌ːn/ → /pyˈɣon/ → /piˈɣon/
Noun
πῠγών • (pugṓn) m (genitive πῠγόνος); third declension
- distance from the elbow to the first joint of the fingers, used as a measure of length
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References
- “πυγών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυγών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυγών 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