οὐρά - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“tail, butt”) (alternatively reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *h₃érsos (“backside, buttocks”)), and related to ὄρρος (órrhos, “butt, ass”); see there for more. The connection with οὐραχός (ourakhós, “urachus”), while semantically sound, is phonetically unclear, due to the latter's strange suffix -αχός (-akhós), which has led Beekes to consider a possible Pre-Greek origin for the words (though he still seems to favor Indo-European origin for οὐρά (ourá), at least).[1]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /uː.rǎː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /uˈra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /uˈra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /uˈra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /uˈra/
- Hyphenation: οὐ‧ρά
οὐρᾱ́ • (ourā́) f (genitive οὐρᾶς); first declension
- the tail (of a lion, dog, etc.)
- (of an army marching) the rear-guard, rear
- ἀλωπέκουρος (alōpékouros)
- κόλουρος (kólouros)
- μᾰκρόουρος (măkróouros)
- οὐραχός (ourakhós)
- οὐροβόρος (ourobóros)
- σκίουρος (skíouros)
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “οὐρά”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1127-8
- “οὐρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὐρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- οὐρά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3769 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.