Τάναϊς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂-, found in many other river names, see also Doncaster, Danube, Dniester.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tá.na.is/ → /ˈta.na.is/ → /ˈta.na.is/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tá.na.is/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈta.na.is/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.na.is/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.na.is/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈta.na.is/

Proper noun

Τᾰ́ναϊς • (Tắnaïs) m (genitive Τᾰνᾰ́ῐ̈δος); third declension

1. Tanais, Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ Τᾰ́νᾰῐ̈ς; τοῦ Τᾰνᾰ́ῐ̈δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Τᾰ́νᾰῐ̈ς ho Tắnăĭ̈s
Genitive	τοῦ Τᾰνᾰ́ῐ̈δος toû Tănắĭ̈dos
Dative	τῷ Τᾰνᾰ́ῐ̈δῐ tôi Tănắĭ̈dĭ
Accusative	τὸν Τᾰνᾰ́ῐ̈δᾰ tòn Tănắĭ̈dă
Vocative	Τάναϊ Tánaï
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Greek: Τάναϊς (Tánaïs); Τανάιδας (Tanáidas)
• Latin: Tanais

References

• Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld: Mythic Origins, Sovereignty and Liminality, p. 97

Further reading

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026