Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *αὖρι (*aûri), the old locative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-r-, from *h₂ews- (“dawn”). Cognate with ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr, “mist, air”), ἠώς (ēṓs, “daybreak, dawn”), and perhaps ἦρι (êri, “early in the morning”); outside Greek, compare Lithuanian aušrà (“dawn”) and Sanskrit उस्र (usrá, “morning light, daybreak”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ǎu̯.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈaw.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.βri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.vri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.vri.on/
Adverb
[edit]αὔριον • (aúrion)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: αύριο (ávrio)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “αὔριον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 172
Further reading
[edit]- “αὔριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αὔριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “αὔριον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- αὔριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- αὔριον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- αὔριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G839 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.