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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *ōyyón, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), argued to have been a derivative of *h₂éwis (“bird”), whence also ᾱ̓ετός (āetós, “eagle”) and οἰωνός (oiōnós, “bird of prey”). Cognates include Latin ōvum, Persian خایه (xâye) and Old English ǣġ (English egg).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔːi̯.ón/ → /oˈon/ → /oˈon/
Noun
ᾠόν • (ōión) n (genitive ᾠοῦ); second declension
- egg
- seed
Usage notes
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- ⇒ Greek: αβγό n (avgó, “egg”) (from rebracketing with the article)
Further reading
- “ᾠόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ᾠόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ᾠόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G5609 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.