κριθή

Etymology
. Traditionally derived from a, with cognates including 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, but there are phonetic difficulties with this. Rather closer are 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, as if from a. Or perhaps of / origin, which may explain the vowel. origin has also been considered. Beekes, not convinced by any proposal, suggests an old ; others have suggested a. He notes that the Epic form points to an original root noun.

Noun

 * 1)  barley
 * 2) pustule on the eyelid, stye
 * 3) barleycorn (unit of weight)
 * 4) penis
 * 1) penis