ἴυγξ

See also: ίυγξ, ἴϋγξ, Ίυγξ, Ἴυγξ, and Ἴϋγξ

Ancient Greek

From ἰύζω (iúzō, “shout, yell”). Beekes reconstructs Pre-Greek *wʲug-.^[1]

ῐ̓́ῠγξ • (ĭ́ŭnx) f (genitive ῐ̓́ῠγγος); third declension

The ancient wizards and witches used to bind it to a wheel, which they turned round, believing that they drew men’s hearts along with it and charmed them to obedience; hence it was much used to recover unfaithful lovers. This operation was called ἕλκειν ἴυγγα ἐπί τινι (hélkein íunga epí tini, “to set the magic bird against someone”).

Third declension of ἡ ῐ̓́ῠγξ; τῆς ῐ̓́ῠγγος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῐ̓́ῠγξ hē ĭ́ŭnx	τὼ ῐ̓́ῠγγε tṑ ĭ́ŭnge	αἱ ῐ̓́ῠγγες hai ĭ́ŭnges
Genitive	τῆς ῐ̓́ῠγγος tês ĭ́ŭngos	τοῖν ῐ̓ῠ́γγοιν toîn ĭŭ́ngoin	τῶν ῐ̓ῠ́γγων tôn ĭŭ́ngōn
Dative	τῇ ῐ̓́ῠγγῐ tēî ĭ́ŭngĭ	τοῖν ῐ̓ῠ́γγοιν toîn ĭŭ́ngoin	ταῖς ῐ̓́ῠγξῐ / ῐ̓́ῠγξῐν taîs ĭ́ŭnxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῐ̓́ῠγγᾰ tḕn ĭ́ŭngă	τὼ ῐ̓́ῠγγε tṑ ĭ́ŭnge	τᾱ̀ς ῐ̓́ῠγγᾰς tā̀s ĭ́ŭngăs
Vocative	ῐ̓́ῠγξ ĭ́ŭnx	ῐ̓́ῠγγε ĭ́ŭnge	ῐ̓́ῠγγες ĭ́ŭnges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ἴυγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἴυγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἴυγξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

^ Beekes, Robert S.P. (2008) “Palatalized Consonants in Pre-Greek”, in Evidence and Counter-Evidence: Essays in honour of Frederik Kortlandt. Volume 1: Balto-Slavic and Indo-European Linguistics (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics; 32), pages 45–56