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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Connection with ψίομαι (psíomai, “to chew”) is semantically attractive, but the formation is quite unclear. Since an Indo-European origin is formally hardly possible, the word could well be Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.aː.ɡɔ̌ːn/ → /si.aˈɣon/ → /si.aˈɣon/
Noun
σῐᾱγών • (siāgṓn) f (genitive σῐᾱγόνος); third declension
- (anatomy) jaw, jawbone, maxilla
- Synonyms: γαμφηλαί (gamphēlaí), γνάθος (gnáthos)
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Further reading
- “σιαγών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σιαγών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σιαγών 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