χείρ

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See also: χειρ and χειρ-

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr (“hand”). Cognate with Old Armenian ձեռն (jeṙn), Old Persian 𐎭𐎿𐎫 (d-s-t /⁠dasta⁠/), Albanian dorë (“hand”), Tocharian A tsar, and Latin hir (“hand”).[1]

Pronunciation

 
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Noun

χείρ • (kheír) f (genitive χειρός); third declension

  1. hand
  2. arm (or hand and arm taken together)
    • 1843, Longus quoted in Liddell Scott Jones, Ancient Greek Lexicon:
      (Il.6.81) εν χερσὶ γυναικων πεσέειν (into the arms)
      (Il.6.81) en khersì gunaikōn peséein (into the arms)
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. paw of an animal
  4. finger

Declension

Third declension of ἡ χείρ; τῆς χειρός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ χείρ
hē kheír 		τὼ χεῖρε
tṑ kheîre 		αἱ χεῖρες
hai kheîres
Genitive τῆς χειρός
tês kheirós 		τοῖν χεροῖν
toîn kheroîn 		τῶν χερῶν / χειρῶν
tôn kherôn / kheirôn
Dative τῇ χειρῐ́
têi kheirí 		τοῖν χεροῖν
toîn kheroîn 		ταῖς χερσί / χερσίν / χείρεσσι / χείρεσσιν
taîs khersí(n) / kheíressi(n)
Accusative τὴν χεῖρᾰ
tḕn kheîra 		τὼ χεῖρε
tṑ kheîre 		τᾱ̀ς χεῖρᾰς
tā̀s kheîras
Vocative χείρ
kheír 		χεῖρε
kheîre 		χεῖρες
kheîres
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Descendants

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χείρ, χειρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1620-1

Further reading

  • “χείρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “χείρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “χείρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • χείρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • χείρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “χείρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • G5495 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, page 382
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • “χείρ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
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