Μαίανδρος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Of uncertain origin. According to Bernal, possibly connected to μαῖα (maîa, old woman, midwife), although he considers a Semitic origin more probable: Biblical Hebrew [script needed] (mē ‛yîm / mə‛y, bowels, intestines; womb, source of procreation), cf. Egyptian qꜣb (intestine), plural qꜣbw (windings of a waterway).[1]

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Μαίανδρος (Maíandrosm (genitive Μαιάνδρου); second declension

  1. the river Maeander; the river Büyük Menderes

Inflection

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Bernal, Martin (2006) Black Athena. Volume III. The Linguistic Evidence, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN

Further reading

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  • Μαίανδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Μαίανδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Μαίανδρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016