ἰσχύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes assumes Pre-Greek origin.

According to Gamkrelidze / Ivanov, a Kartvelian borrowing. Compare Proto-Georgian-Zan *s₁xu- (“fat, stout”), whence also Old Georgian სხუილი (sxuili), სხჳლი (sxwili, “thick”), Mingrelian შხუ (šxu, “fat”) and Laz ჩხუ (čxu), მჩხუ (mčxu, “fat”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ῐ̓σχῡ́ς • (iskhū́s) f (genitive ῐ̓σχῠ́ος); third declension

  1. strength, power, might

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ῐ̓σχῡ́ς; τῆς ῐ̓σχῠ́ος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ῐ̓σχῡ́ς
hē iskhū́s		 τὼ ῐ̓σχῠ́ε
tṑ iskhúe		 αἱ ῐ̓σχῠ́ες
hai iskhúes
Genitive τῆς ῐ̓σχῠ́ος
tês iskhúos		 τοῖν ῐ̓σχῠ́οιν
toîn iskhúoin		 τῶν ῐ̓σχῠ́ων
tôn iskhúōn
Dative τῇ ῐ̓σχῠ́ῐ̈
têi iskhúï		 τοῖν ῐ̓σχῠ́οιν
toîn iskhúoin		 ταῖς ῐ̓σχῠ́σῐ / ῐ̓σχῠ́σῐν
taîs iskhúsi(n)
Accusative τὴν ῐ̓σχῡ́ν
tḕn iskhū́n		 τὼ ῐ̓σχῠ́ε
tṑ iskhúe		 τᾱ̀ς ῐ̓σχῦς / ῐ̓σχῠ́ᾰς
tā̀s iskhûs / iskhúas
Vocative ῐ̓σχῡ́
iskhū́		 ῐ̓σχῠ́ε
iskhúe		 ῐ̓σχῠ́ες
iskhúes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Further reading
  • 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, →ISBN, page 603
  • Gamkrelidze, Th. V.; Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 800
  • ἰσχύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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