ὕρχη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, a technical word of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hýr.kʰɛː/ → /ˈyr.çi/ → /ˈir.çi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hýr.kʰɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)yr.kʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈyr.çi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈyr.çi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈir.çi/

Noun

ὕρχη • (húrkhē) f (genitive ὕρχης); first declension

1. A jar for pickles or for wine

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὕρχη hē húrkhē	τὼ ὕρχᾱ tṑ húrkhā	αἱ ὕρχαι hai húrkhai
Genitive	τῆς ὕρχης tês húrkhēs	τοῖν ὕρχαιν toîn húrkhain	τῶν ὑρχῶν tôn hurkhôn
Dative	τῇ ὕρχῃ têi húrkhēi	τοῖν ὕρχαιν toîn húrkhain	ταῖς ὕρχαις taîs húrkhais
Accusative	τὴν ὕρχην tḕn húrkhēn	τὼ ὕρχᾱ tṑ húrkhā	τᾱ̀ς ὕρχᾱς tā̀s húrkhās
Vocative	ὕρχη húrkhē	ὕρχᾱ húrkhā	ὕρχαι húrkhai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First declension of ἡ ὕρχη; τῆς ὕρχης (Attic)

Descendants

• →? Carian: 𐊫𐊥𐊽 (ork)
• →? Latin: orca (see there for further descendants)

References

• ὕρχη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• Simon, Zsolt (2019) “Zu den karisch-griechischen Lehnbeziehungen”, in Glotta‎, volume 95, pages 302–304