χείρ

See also: χειρ and χειρ-

Ancient Greek

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”).

χείρ • (kheír) f (genitive χειρός); third declension

hand
arm (or hand and arm taken together)
- 1843, Longus quoted in Liddell Scott Jones, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
  (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)
paw of an animal
finger

Third declension of ἡ χείρ; τῆς χειρός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χείρ hē kheír	τὼ χεῖρε tṑ kheîre	αἱ χεῖρες hai kheîres
Genitive	τῆς χειρός tês kheirós	τοῖν χεροῖν toîn kheroîn	τῶν χερῶν / χειρῶν tôn kherôn / kheirôn
Dative	τῇ χειρῐ́ têi kheirí	τοῖν χεροῖν toîn kheroîn	ταῖς χερσί / χερσίν / χείρεσσι / χείρεσσιν taîs khersí(n) / kheíressi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χεῖρᾰ tḕn kheîra	τὼ χεῖρε tṑ kheîre	τᾱ̀ς χεῖρᾰς tā̀s kheîras
Vocative	χείρ kheír	χεῖρε kheîre	χεῖρες kheîres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

→ English: chiro-, chiral, chirality
Koine Greek: χέριον (khérion) (diminutive)
- Byzantine Greek: χέριν (khérin)
  - Greek: χέρι (chéri)
→ Greek: χειρ (cheir)

“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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 382
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- grasp idem, page 370.
- grip idem, page 374.
- hand idem, page 382.
- quarter idem, page 663.
- side idem, page 772.
χείρ - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

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