κῆρυξ

• κᾶρῠξ (kârux) — Aeolic

By the long -ύ- and enlarged -κ-, suggested by Beekes to be a Pre-Greek word, but for Bernal this is from Egyptian qꜣ ḫrw (“loud voice”), both rejecting the frequent comparison to Sanskrit कारु (kāru, “singer, poet”).

κῆρῠξ • (kêrux) m (genitive κήρῡκος); third declension

1. herald, pursuivant
2. public messenger, envoy

   Synonym: ἀπόστολος (apóstolos)

3. crier, who made proclamation and kept order in assemblies
4. auctioneer
5. trumpet shell (Charonia lampas)

   Synonym: στρόμβος (strómbos)

6. an attendant of kings or chiefs sometimes found discharging the general duties of a slave or servant, particularly in Homer

   Synonym: θεράπων (therápōn)

• “κῆρυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κῆρυξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κῆρυξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κῆρυξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κῆρυξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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
• Bernal, Martin (2006) Black Athena. Volume III. The Linguistic Evidence, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, pages 415, 451