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Modern Greek: Η λέξη γυνή (γυναίκα) μου φαίνεται ότι είναι ίδια με τη λέξη γονή (απόγονος)
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Quoted by Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 11, 6, 18.
Orion, Etymologicum, gamma, p. 39 (Γυνή, γονή τις ἐστὶν, παρὰ τὴν γονήν· διὰ τὸ δεκτικὸν εἶναι τοῦ γόνου, τουτέστι τοῦ σπέρματος. ὁ δὲ Φιλόξενος ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἀναδιπλασιασμοῦ φησὶν, ὅτι γῶ ἐστὶ ῥῆμα δηλοῦν τὸ δέχομαι, καὶ λαμβάνω); Theognostus, Canones sive De orthographia 506 (Γυνὴ τὸ γυ ψιλόν· παρὰ γὰρ τὸ γείνω, ὃ δηλοῖ τὸ τίκτω, γονὴ, καὶ τροπῇ τοῦ ο εἰς υ Αἰολικῇ, ὡς ὅμοιον ὔμμιον, γονὴ γυνή· διὸ καὶ τὰ παρ’ αὐτὸ διὰ τοῦ υ ψιλοῦ· οἷον, ἀνδρόγυνος· λάγυνος· μισόγυνος); Etym. Gudianum, gamma, p. 326 (παρὰ τὸ γῶ, τὸ λαμβάνω καὶ δέχομαι, ἡ δεκτικὴ τοῦ σπέρματος· ἢ παρὰ τὸ γείνω, τὸ τίκτω, γίνεται γονή, καὶ τροπῇ τοῦ ο εἰς υ Αἰολικῇ, ὡς ὅμοιον ὕμοιον, γίνεται γυνή); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges p. 243 (idem); Etym. Symeonis, gamma 180 (idem); Joannes Mauropus, Etymologica nominum 138 (γυνὴ δὲ γεννᾷ καὶ γονὴν εἰς φῶς ἄγει)
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Derivational etymology, often found in our sources, which the Etymologicum Gudianum attributes to Democritus: Γυνή· ὡς μὲν Δημόκριτος, γονή τις οὖσα, ἡ γονῆς δεκτική (Additamenta in Etymologicum Gudianum p. 326). Later grammarians explain the change of γονή to γυνή through the Aeolic dialect. The etymology gives a functional justification to the word: a woman's function is to give birth.