ἀήρ

See also: αήρ and Appendix:Variations of "aer"

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • ἠέρος (ēéros) Homeric, genitive
  • ᾱ̓βήρ (ābḗr) Doric
  • αὐήρ (auḗr) Aeolic
  • ἠήρ (ēḗr) Ionic

Etymology

Beekes gives Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr (morning mist), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsḗr, from *h₂ews- (dawn; east). Cognate with αὔρᾱ (aúrā) (< *h₂éwsreh₂), Latin aurōra.[1] The a was lengthened to ā by compensatory lengthening.
Sihler gives Proto-Hellenic *āwḗr (morning mist) but provides no further etymology.[2][3]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) m (genitive ᾱ̓έρος); third declension

  1. mist
  2. air
  3. wind
  4. space, volume
  5. blue or grey (the colour of the sky)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Greek: αέρας (aéras), αήρ (aḯr)
    • Aromanian: aerã, erã
  • Aramaic:
    Syriac: ܐܐܪ (ʾāʾar)
  • Latin: āēr (see there for further descendants)

See also

References

  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ᾱ̓ήρ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 27
  2. Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 54
  3. Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 284 A

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