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Ancient Greek
Etymology Beekes gives Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr ( “ morning mist ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsḗr *h₂ews- ( “ dawn; east ” ) . Cognate with αὔρᾱ ( aúrā ) (< *h₂éwsreh₂ Latin aurōra [ 1] a was lengthened to ā by compensatory lengthening .
Sihler gives Proto-Hellenic *āwḗr ( “ morning mist ” ) but provides no further etymology.[ 2] [ 3] Albanian fjur
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /aː.ɛ̌ːr/ → /aˈir/ → /aˈir/
Noun ᾱ̓ήρ • (āḗr ) m genitive ᾱ̓έρος third declension
mist air wind space , volume blue or grey (the colour of the sky)
Inflection
ᾱ̓ήρ āḗr
ἠέρος ēéros
ἠέρῐ ēéri
ἠέρᾰ ēéra
ᾱ̓ήρ āḗr
Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
Derived terms
Descendants Greek: αέρας ( aéras ) , αήρ m ( aḯr )
→ Aramaic:Syriac script: ܐܐܪ ( ʾāʾar ) → English: aero- → Old Georgian: აერი ( aeri ) Georgian: ჰაერი ( haeri ) → Hebrew: אֲוִיר ( ʾăwîr ) → Latin: āēr see there for further descendants )
See also
References
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010 ) “ᾱ̓ήρ ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek 10 ), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN 27 ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995 ) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin , Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN § 54 ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995 ) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin , Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN § 284 A
Further reading “ἀήρ Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon
“ἀήρ Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἀήρ Autenrieth, Georg (1891 ) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges , New York: Harper and Brothers
ἀήρ Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924 ) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963 “ἀήρ Slater, William J. (1969 ) Lexicon to Pindar , Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G109 in Strong, James (1979 ) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible ἀήρ Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007 ) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language Bauer, Walter et al. (2001 ) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature “ἀήρ ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago , since 2011