χείρ

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See also: χειρ and χειρ-

Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr (hand). Cognate with Old Armenian ձեռն (jeṙn), Old Persian 𐎭𐎿𐎫 (d-s-t /⁠dasta⁠/), Albanian dorë (hand), Tocharian A tsar, and Latin hir (hand).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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χείρ (kheírf (genitive χειρός); third declension

  1. hand
  2. arm (or hand and arm taken together)
    • 1843, Longus quoted in Liddell Scott Jones, Ancient Greek Lexicon:
      (Il.6.81) εν χερσὶ γυναικων πεσέειν (into the arms)
      (Il.6.81) en khersì gunaikōn peséein (into the arms)
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. paw of an animal
  4. finger

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: chiro-, chiral, chirality
  • Koine Greek: χέριον (khérion) (diminutive)
  • Greek: χειρ (cheir)

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χείρ, χειρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1620-1

Further reading

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  • χείρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • χείρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • χείρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • χείρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • χείρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • χείρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • G5495 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 382
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • χείρ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011