ᾠόν

• ὤεον (ṓeon), ὤϊον (ṓïon) — Aeolic, poetic
• ὤβεον (ṓbeon) — Doric

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).

ᾠόν • (ōión) n (genitive ᾠοῦ); second declension

1. egg
2. seed

• Along with πτερόν (pterón), λουτρόν (loutrón), ζυγόν (zugón) and ἑρπετόν (herpetón), this is one of the very few neuter nouns that does not have a recessive accent.

• ⇒ Greek: αβγό n (avgó, “egg”) (from rebracketing with the article)
• ⇒ Pontic Greek: ωβό n (ovó), ωβόν (ovón), ωβγόν (ovgón), ωβγό (ovgó), εβγό (evgó), 'βό ('vó)

• “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.
  • egg idem, page 263.