πυρός

From Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“fire”), like πῦρ (pûr, “fire”); it meant “spelt” due to the grains having to be dried on fire, then the word was transferred onto the later popular wheat, while other languages used new formations to denote wheat, Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz, Proto-Slavic *pьšenica etc.

πῡρός • (pūrós) m (genitive πῡροῦ); second declension

1. wheat
2. a grain of wheat

• διόσπῡρος (dióspūros)
• (perhaps) πῡραμίς (pūramís)
• πῡρομέτρης (pūrométrēs)
• πῡρήν (pūrḗn)

• →? Arabic: بُرّ (burr, “wheat”)
• → Old Georgian: პური (ṗuri)
  • Georgian: პური (ṗuri, “wheat; bread”)
    • → Armenian: պուրի (puri)
• → Sicilian: puru puru (“repeated interjection to call hens, now disconnected from the sense of 'wheat'”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

πῠρός • (purós)

1. genitive singular of πῦρ (pûr)

• “πυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πυρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πυρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πυρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πυρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G4450 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.
  • corn idem, page 174.
  • wheat idem, page 974.
• Brown, John Pairman (2000) Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 276), volume II, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, page 9 seqq., considering rather owing to the original uncommonness of proper wheat in Classical Antiquity – πόλτος (póltos) and Latin puls meaning porridge of spelt, χῡλός (khūlós) gruel of barley – a Semitic origin, compare Hebrew בָּר (bār, “grain, especially of wheat”) and Arabic بُرّ (burr, “wheat”).

πυρός • (pyrós) n

1. genitive singular of πυρ (pyr)