ὕρχη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
 

Noun

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

  1. A jar for pickles or for wine

Inflection
First declension of ἡ ὕρχη; τῆς ὕρχης (Attic)
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.

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
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