χείρ
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr (“hand”). Cognate with Old Armenian ձեռն (jeṙn), Old Persian 𐎭𐎿𐎫 (d-s-t /dasta/), Albanian dorë (“hand”), Tocharian A tsar, and Latin hir (“hand”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰěːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰir/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /çir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /çir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /çir/
Audio (Classical Attic): (file)
Noun
editχείρ • (kheír) f (genitive χειρός); third declension
- hand
- arm (or hand and arm taken together)
- 1843, Longus quoted in Liddell Scott Jones, Ancient Greek Lexicon:
- (Il.6.81) εν χερσὶ γυναικων πεσέειν (into the arms)
- (Il.6.81) en khersì gunaikōn peséein (into the arms)
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- paw of an animal
- finger
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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
edit- ἑκατόγχειρος (hekatónkheiros)
- ἐπιχειρέω (epikheiréō)
- χειραγωγέω (kheiragōgéō)
- χειραγωγός (kheiragōgós)
- χειραπτάζω (kheiraptázō)
- χειριδωτός (kheiridōtós)
- χειρίζω (kheirízō)
- χείριος (kheírios)
- χειρίς (kheirís)
- Χειρίσοφος (Kheirísophos)
- χειροδάϊκτος (kheirodáïktos)
- χειρόδεικτος (kheiródeiktos)
- χειροδίκης (kheirodíkēs)
- χειροδόσῐον (kheirodósion)
- χειροδράκων (kheirodrákōn)
- χειροήθης (kheiroḗthēs)
- χειρόμακτρον (kheirómaktron)
- χειρομύλη (kheiromúlē)
- χειρόνιπτρον (kheiróniptron)
- χειρονομέω (kheironoméō)
- χειρονομία (kheironomía)
- χειροπληθής (kheiroplēthḗs)
- χειροποιέω (kheiropoiéō)
- χειροποίητος (kheiropoíētos)
- χειροτένων (kheiroténōn)
- χειροτέχνημα (kheirotékhnēma)
- χειροτέχνης (kheirotékhnēs)
- χειροτεχνία (kheirotekhnía)
- χειροτεχνικός (kheirotekhnikós)
- χειροτονέω (kheirotonéō)
- χειροτονητός (kheirotonētós)
- χειροτονία (kheirotonía)
- χειρότονος (kheirótonos)
- χειρουργέω (kheirourgéō)
- χειρούργημα (kheiroúrgēma)
- χειρουργία (kheirourgía)
- χειρουργικός (kheirourgikós)
- χειρουργός (kheirourgós)
- χειρῶναξ (kheirônax)
- χειρωναξία (kheirōnaxía)
Descendants
edit- → English: chiro-, chiral, chirality
- Koine Greek: χέριον (khérion) (diminutive)
- → Greek: χειρ (cheir)
References
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χείρ, χειρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1620-1
Further reading
edit- “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 382
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “χείρ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
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