λήμη
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unexplained. Connection with Latin lāma (“marsh, mud”) and Lithuanian lōmas (“pit, hollow”) is semantically unconvincing. According to Beekes, it is rather a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lɛ̌ː.mɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle̝.me̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.mi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.mi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.mi/
Noun
[edit]λήμη • (lḗmē) f (genitive λήμης); first declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λήμη hē lḗmē |
τὼ λήμᾱ tṑ lḗmā |
αἱ λῆμαι hai lêmai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λήμης tês lḗmēs |
τοῖν λήμαιν toîn lḗmain |
τῶν λημῶν tôn lēmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λήμῃ têi lḗmēi |
τοῖν λήμαιν toîn lḗmain |
ταῖς λήμαις taîs lḗmais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λήμην tḕn lḗmēn |
τὼ λήμᾱ tṑ lḗmā |
τᾱ̀ς λήμᾱς tā̀s lḗmās | ||||||||||
Vocative | λήμη lḗmē |
λήμᾱ lḗmā |
λῆμαι lêmai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “λήμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λήμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λήμη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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