Βορέας

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Named as the god of the north wind. Perhaps related to Proto-Slavic *gora (“mountain, hill, mountainous elevation covered in forests”) and Proto-Indo-Iranian *gr̥Híš (“mountain”), in which case from Proto-Indo-European *gʷorH-eh₂, from *gʷerH- (“mountain, forest”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

Βορέᾱς • (Boréās) m (genitive Βορέᾱ); first declension (Old Attic, Doric)

  1. the north wind, personified as Boreas
  2. the North

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Βορέᾱς; τοῦ Βορέου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Βορέᾱς
ho Boréās
Genitive τοῦ Βορέου
toû Boréou
Dative τῷ Βορέᾳ
tōî Boréāi
Accusative τὸν Βορέᾱν
tòn Boréān
Vocative Βορέᾱ
Boréā
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
First declension of ὁ Βορέᾱς; τοῦ Βορέᾱ (Doric)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Βορέᾱς
ho Boréās
Genitive τοῦ Βορέᾱ
toû Boréā
Dative τῷ Βορέᾳ
tōî Boréāi
Accusative τὸν Βορέᾱν
tòn Boréān
Vocative Βορέᾱ
Boréā
Notes:
  • Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Albanian: veri (“north”)
  • Greek: βοριάς m (voriás)
    • → Old Anatolian Turkish: فوریاز (foryāz)
      • ⇒ Old Anatolian Turkish: پوریاز (poryaz)
        • Gagauz: poyraz
        • Ottoman Turkish: پویراز (poyraz), بوریاز (boryaz)
          • Turkish: poyraz
          • → Armenian: բորյազ (boryaz)
  • Greek: Βορέας (Voréas), βορράς m (vorrás)
  • → Latin: Boreas
  • → Middle Armenian: բօրէաս (bōrēas)
  • → Old Armenian: վոռէ (voṙē)
  • → Old Georgian: ბორიაჲ (boriay, “northern wind”)
    • Georgian: ბორია (boria, “cold, northern breeze”), ბორიო (borio)
  • → Mingrelian: ბორია (boria, “wind”)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βορέας, -ου”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 227

Further reading

Further reading

Greek

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Βορέας • (Voréas) m

  1. (Greek mythology) Boreas, the god of the North Wind

Declension

Declension of Βορέας
singular
nominative Βορέας (Voréas)
genitive Βορέα (Voréa)
accusative Βορέα (Voréa)
vocative Βορέα (Voréa)

Further reading

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