ἴϋγξ

See also: ίυγξ, Ίυγξ, and Ἴϋγξ

Ancient Greek

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

ῐ̓́ῠ̈γξ • (ĭ́ŭ̈nx) f (genitive ῐ̓́ῠ̈γγος); 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 ἴϋγγα ἐπί τινι (hélkein íünga epí tini, “to set the magic bird against someone”).

Third declension of ἡ ῐ̓́ῠ̈γξ; τῆς ῐ̓́ῠ̈γγος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῐ̓́ῠ̈γξ hē ĭ́ŭ̈nx	τὼ ῐ̓́ῠ̈γγε tṑ ĭ́ŭ̈nge	αἱ ῐ̓́ῠ̈γγες hai ĭ́ŭ̈nges
Genitive	τῆς ῐ̓́ῠ̈γγος tês ĭ́ŭ̈ngos	τοῖν ῐ̓ῠ̈́γγοιν toîn ĭŭ̈́ngoin	τῶν ῐ̓ῠ̈́γγων tôn ĭŭ̈́ngōn
Dative	τῇ ῐ̓́ῠ̈γγῐ tēî ĭ́ŭ̈ngĭ	τοῖν ῐ̓ῠ̈́γγοιν toîn ĭŭ̈́ngoin	ταῖς ῐ̓́ῠ̈γξῐ / ῐ̓́ῠ̈γξῐν taîs ĭ́ŭ̈nxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ῐ̓́ῠ̈γγᾰ tḕn ĭ́ŭ̈ngă	τὼ ῐ̓́ῠ̈γγε tṑ ĭ́ŭ̈nge	τᾱ̀ς ῐ̓́ῠ̈γγᾰς tā̀s ĭ́ŭ̈ngăs
Vocative	ῐ̓́ῠ̈γξ ĭ́ŭ̈nx	ῐ̓́ῠ̈γγε ĭ́ŭ̈nge	ῐ̓́ῠ̈γγες ĭ́ŭ̈nges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ἴϋγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἴϋγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἴϋγξ 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