βήξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Furnée argues for a Pre-Greek origin, but the word might also be of onomatopoeic origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bɛ̌ːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /beks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βiks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /viks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /viks/
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βήξ ho bḗx |
τὼ βῆχε tṑ bêkhe |
οἱ βῆχες hoi bêkhes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βηχός toû bēkhós |
τοῖν βηχοῖν toîn bēkhoîn |
τῶν βηχῶν tôn bēkhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βηχῐ́ tôi bēkhí |
τοῖν βηχοῖν toîn bēkhoîn |
τοῖς βηξῐ́ / βηξῐ́ν toîs bēxí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βῆχᾰ tòn bêkha |
τὼ βῆχε tṑ bêkhe |
τοὺς βῆχᾰς toùs bêkhas | ||||||||||
Vocative | βήξ bḗx |
βῆχε bêkhe |
βῆχες bêkhes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: βήχας (víchas)
References
- βήξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βήξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βήξ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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
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