Πρόκνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From περκνός (perknós, “dark-spotted”), used to refer to eagles, from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pró.knɛː/ → /ˈpro.kni/ → /ˈpro.kni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pró.knɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.kne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.kni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.kni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.kni/

Proper noun

Πρόκνη • (Próknē) f (genitive Πρόκνης); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Procne

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Πρόκνη; τῆς Πρόκνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Πρόκνη hē Próknē
Genitive	τῆς Πρόκνης tês Próknēs
Dative	τῇ Πρόκνῃ têi Próknēi
Accusative	τὴν Πρόκνην tḕn Próknēn
Vocative	Πρόκνη Próknē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Πρόκνη (Prókni)
• Latin: Procne

Further reading

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
• 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