βουνός

See also: Βοῦνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Herodotus, a Cyrenaic word; however, more recent research by Solmsen indicates a dialectal Doric origin instead. Based on variants of the related βουνιάς (bouniás, “Brassica napus”), such as μουνιάς (mouniás) and μουνιαδικόν (mouniadikón), Furnee takes the word as Pre-Greek and compares Basque muno (“hill”), apparently from the same substrate source.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /buː.nós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /buˈnos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βuˈnos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vuˈnos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vuˈnos/

Noun

βουνός • (bounós) m (genitive βουνοῦ); second declension

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βουνός; τοῦ βουνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βουνός ho bounós	τὼ βουνώ tṑ bounṓ	οἱ βουνοί hoi bounoí
Genitive	τοῦ βουνοῦ toû bounoû	τοῖν βουνοῖν toîn bounoîn	τῶν βουνῶν tôn bounôn
Dative	τῷ βουνῷ tōî bounōî	τοῖν βουνοῖν toîn bounoîn	τοῖς βουνοῖς toîs bounoîs
Accusative	τὸν βουνόν tòn bounón	τὼ βουνώ tṑ bounṓ	τοὺς βουνούς toùs bounoús
Vocative	βουνέ bouné	βουνώ bounṓ	βουνοί bounoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: βουνό (vounó)
Mariupol Greek: вуно́ (vunó)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βουνός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 231-2

“βουνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“βουνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
βουνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
βουνός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
G1015 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βουνός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 231-2

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