δειράς

Ancient Greek

Disputed. Liddell and Scott propose Sanskrit दृषद् (dṛṣád, “millstone”) as a cognate. However, Pokorny argues for an origin from a Proto-Indo-European *gʷer-, citing Sanskrit गिरि (giri) as a cognate. Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin, based on the suffix and lack of clear cognates.^[1]

δειρᾰ́ς • (deirắs) f (genitive δειρᾰ́δος); third declension

Third declension of ἡ δειρᾰ́ς; τῆς δειρᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ δειρᾰ́ς hē deirắs	τὼ δειρᾰ́δε tṑ deirắde	αἱ δειρᾰ́δες hai deirắdes
Genitive	τῆς δειρᾰ́δος tês deirắdos	τοῖν δειρᾰ́δοιν toîn deirắdoin	τῶν δειρᾰ́δων tôn deirắdōn
Dative	τῇ δειρᾰ́δῐ tēî deirắdĭ	τοῖν δειρᾰ́δοιν toîn deirắdoin	ταῖς δειρᾰ́σῐ / δειρᾰ́σῐν taîs deirắsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν δειρᾰ́δᾰ tḕn deirắdă	τὼ δειρᾰ́δε tṑ deirắde	τᾱ̀ς δειρᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s deirắdăs
Vocative	δειρᾰ́ς deirắs	δειρᾰ́δε deirắde	δειρᾰ́δες deirắdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster -δς (-ds).

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “δειράς, -άδος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 310

“δειράς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“δειράς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
δειράς in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
δειράς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
“δειράς”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ridge idem, page 713.
δειράς, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011