γόνῠ, τό,
genitive γόνατος, Epic dialect and Ionic dialect γούνατος (for γόνϝατος) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.591, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.80 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: plural nominative
__A γούνατα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.176, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 587, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.199, “Schwyzer” 694.7 (Chios, 4th c.BC), _genitive_ γουνάτων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.76, _dative_ γούνασι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.455, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.152 (also 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.26), γονάτεσσι 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.11, “epigram Gr.” 782 (Halic.)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also Epic dialect genitive γουνός (explanation as for γόνυος by Hdn.Gr.2.768, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 342.9) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.547: _plural_ γοῦνα 6.511; γούνων 1.407, +others: _dative_ γούνεσσι 9.488, +others (variant{γούνασσι})] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—Aeolic dialect accusative plural γόνα [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 39.7 (probably), but γόννα _accusative_ to 5th c.AD(?): Stephanus Byzantius see entry {Γόννοι}, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 335.39: _genitive_ _plural_ γόνων 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 10: ] Refs 7th c.BC+]
__E has γουνάτων [[ “Hec.” 752, 839, γούνασι “Supp.” 285 (Lyric poetry), “Andr.” 529 (Lyric poetry), but not γουνός (γοῦν᾽] Refs] accusative plural was read by [[ Scholia in “Ph.” 852): _genitive_ _plural_ γεύνων, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]:—knee, γόνυ γουνὸς ἀμείβων [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.547, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently of clasping the knees in earnest supplication, ἥψατο γούνων [[ 1.512; ἑλεῖν, λαβεῖν γούνων 21.71, 1.407, etc.; τῶν γουνάτων λαβέσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.76 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ποτὶ (variant{περὶ}) or ἀμφὶ γούνασί τινος χεῖρας βαλεῖν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.310, 7.142; περὶ γόνυ χέρας ἱκεσίους ἔβαλον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1414, compare “Ph.” 1622, etc.; τὰ σὰ γούναθ᾽ ἱκάνομαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.457, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.147, etc.; κιχανόμενοι τὰ σὰ γοῦνα ἱκόμεθ᾽ 9.266; ἀντίος ἤλυθε γούνων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.463; γόνυ σὸν ἀμπίσχειν χερί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 165; σοῖς προστίθημι γόνασιν ὠλένας [prev. author] “Andr.” 895 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐς γούνατά τινι or τινος πεσεῖν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.86, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1607; ἀμφὶ γόνυ τινὸς πίπτειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 787 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γόνυ τινός or πρὸς γόνυ προσπίπτειν[[ [prev. work] 339, “HF” 79; γόνασί τινος προσπίπτειν [prev. author] “Or.” 1332 (but προσπίτνω σε γόνασιν] Refs] on my knees, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 485)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πίπτειν πρὸς τὰ γ. τινος, tini, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.19, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.198; also γούνων λίσσεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.451; ἐλλιτανεύειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.481; γουνάζεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.345; ἄντεσθαι πρὸς τῶν γονάτων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 710; ἱκετεῦσαι πρὸς τ. γ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 58.70. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]