ὀξύα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὀξέα (oxéa)
ὀξύη (oxúē)

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s- and, so, cognate with Proto-Germanic *askaz (“ash tree”), Old Armenian հացի (hacʻi, “ash tree”) and Albanian ah (“beech”). The Indo-European character of these words is far from sure, despite the tradition to compare them. The vocalic variation in Greek, which is not sufficiently explained by assuming the intervention of ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”), may in principle also point to a Pre-Greek word. Compare Ancient Macedonian ἄξος (áxos, “a kind of wood”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ok.sý.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /okˈsy.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /okˈsy.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /okˈsy.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /okˈsi.a/

Noun

ὀξύᾱ • (oxúā) f (genitive ὀξύᾱς); first declension

beech (Fagus sylvatica)
spear made from its wood

Declension

First declension of ἡ ὀξύᾱ; τῆς ὀξύᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀξύᾱ hē oxúā	τὼ ὀξύᾱ tṑ oxúā	αἱ ὀξύαι hai oxúai
Genitive	τῆς ὀξύᾱς tês oxúās	τοῖν ὀξύαιν toîn oxúain	τῶν ὀξυῶν tôn oxuôn
Dative	τῇ ὀξύᾳ têi oxúāi	τοῖν ὀξύαιν toîn oxúain	ταῖς ὀξύαις taîs oxúais
Accusative	τὴν ὀξύᾱν tḕn oxúān	τὼ ὀξύᾱ tṑ oxúā	τᾱ̀ς ὀξύᾱς tā̀s oxúās
Vocative	ὀξύᾱ oxúā	ὀξύᾱ oxúā	ὀξύαι oxúai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ὀξύϊνος (oxúïnos)
ὀξυόεις (oxuóeis)

Descendants

Greek: οξιά (oxiá)

References

“ὀξύα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ὀξύα 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