χοῖρος

Traditionally derived from Proto-Hellenic *kʰóřřos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰóryos (“pig”) (whence Albanian derr (“id”)), from *ǵʰer- (“to be excited, bristly”) +‎ *-yos (owing to the bristliness of wild pigs), whence *ǵʰḗr (“hedgehog”). But in view of the limited distribution, Beekes suspects a Pre-Greek substrate origin for the Greek and Albanian terms.^[1]

χοῖρος • (khoîros) m (genitive χοίρου); second declension

1. a pig, especially a young one.
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Archarnians 521:

     Κεἴ που σίκυον ἴδοιεν ἢ λαγῴδιον
     ἢ χοιρίδιον ἢ σκόροδον ἢ χόνδρους ἅλας,
     ταῦτ’ ἦν “Μεγαρικὰ” κἀπέπρατ’ αὐθημερόν.

     Keí pou síkuon ídoien ḕ lagṓidion
     ḕ khoirídion ḕ skórodon ḕ khóndrous hálas,
     taût’ ên “Megarikà” kapéprat’ authēmerón.

     And if they see a cucumber or a young hare
     or a piglet or a clove of garlic or a granule of salt,
     They would shout "Megarian!" and take it all away.

2. (generally) swine
3. (slang, vulgar) female genitalia, especially those belonging to a young woman
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Archarnians 782–783:

     Νῦν γε χοῖρος φαίνεται.
     ἀτὰρ ἐκτραφείς γε κύσθος ἔσται.

     Nûn ge khoîros phaínetai.
     atàr ektrapheís ge kústhos éstai.

     Now it looks like a pussy.
     But once it's been reared, it'll be a cunt.

4. a fish of the Nile

• For the semantic shift of “pig” to “female genitalia”, compare the same Latin use of porcus.

• (swine): ὗς (hûs), σῦς (sûs)

• Greek: χοίρος (choíros)

• “χοῖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χοῖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χοῖρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χοῖρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χοῖρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G5519 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.
  • hog idem, page 402.
  • pig idem, page 612.
  • swine idem, page 849.
• Chantraine, Pierre (1968–1980) “χοῖρος”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Paris: Klincksieck, pages 1266–1267
• Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “χοῖρος”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 1107–1108
• Lamberterie, Charles de (1980) “Échange de gutturales en arménien”, in Annual of Armenian linguistics (in French), volume 1, pages 25–26