γῦρος

See also: γυρός and γύρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to curve, to bend”), the same source as Old Armenian կոր (kor), Lithuanian gur̃nas (“ankle, hip, bone”), and Norwegian kaure (“curly lock of hair”). See also γυῖον (guîon, “hand, limbs”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

γῦρος • (gûros) m (genitive γῡ́ρου); second declension

  1. ring, circle

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ γῦρος; τοῦ γῡ́ρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ γῦρος
ho gûros 		τὼ γῡ́ρω
tṑ gū́rō 		οἱ γῦροι
hoi gûroi
Genitive τοῦ γῡ́ρου
toû gū́rou 		τοῖν γῡ́ροιν
toîn gū́roin 		τῶν γῡ́ρων
tôn gū́rōn
Dative τῷ γῡ́ρῳ
tōî gū́rōi 		τοῖν γῡ́ροιν
toîn gū́roin 		τοῖς γῡ́ροις
toîs gū́rois
Accusative τὸν γῦρον
tòn gûron 		τὼ γῡ́ρω
tṑ gū́rō 		τοὺς γῡ́ρους
toùs gū́rous
Vocative γῦρε
gûre 		γῡ́ρω
gū́rō 		γῦροι
gûroi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: γύρος (gýros)
  • → Latin: gȳrus (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “γῦρός (> DER γῦρος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 293

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