χείρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰesr- (“hand”). Cognate with Old Armenian ձեռն (jeṙn), Old Persian 𐎭𐎿𐎫 (dasta), Albanian dorë (“hand”), Tocharian A tsar, and Latin hīr (“hand”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰěːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰir/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /çir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /çir/
Audio (Classical Attic) (file)
Declension
| 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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Derived terms
- ἑκατόγχειρος (hekatónkheiros)
- χειροδόσῐον (kheirodósion)
- Χειρίσοφος (Kheirísophos)
References
- 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 382
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