τοῖχος

See also: τοίχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *tóikʰos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, fashion”). Compare τεῖχος (teîkhos), which it appears to be variant of.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

τοῖχος • (toîkhos) m (genitive τοίχου); second declension

  1. wall (inside a building), partition
  2. the side of a ship

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τοῖχος; τοῦ τοίχου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ τοῖχος
ho toîkhos 		τὼ τοίχω
tṑ toíkhō 		οἱ τοῖχοι
hoi toîkhoi
Genitive τοῦ τοίχου
toû toíkhou 		τοῖν τοίχοιν
toîn toíkhoin 		τῶν τοίχων
tôn toíkhōn
Dative τῷ τοίχῳ
tōî toíkhōi 		τοῖν τοίχοιν
toîn toíkhoin 		τοῖς τοίχοις
toîs toíkhois
Accusative τὸν τοῖχον
tòn toîkhon 		τὼ τοίχω
tṑ toíkhō 		τοὺς τοίχους
toùs toíkhous
Vocative τοῖχε
toîkhe 		τοίχω
toíkhō 		τοῖχοι
toîkhoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: τοίχος (toíchos)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τεῖχος (> VAR > τοῖχος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1458-9

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