καναχή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Explained as an expressive formation like στοναχή (stonakhḗ), derived from a verb "to sing" seen in Latin canō (“I sing”) and Old Irish canaid. Furnée compares κόναβος (kónabos, “din, clash”) and concludes that the word is Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.na.kʰɛ̌ː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.naˈkʰe̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.naˈçi/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.naˈçi/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.naˈçi/

Noun

κᾰνᾰχή • (kănăkhḗ) f (genitive κᾰνᾰχῆς); first declension

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κᾰνᾰχή; τῆς κᾰνᾰχῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰνᾰχή hē kănăkhḗ	τὼ κᾰνᾰχᾱ́ tṑ kănăkhā́	αἱ κᾰνᾰχαί hai kănăkhaí
Genitive	τῆς κᾰνᾰχῆς tês kănăkhês	τοῖν κᾰνᾰχαῖν toîn kănăkhaîn	τῶν κᾰνᾰχῶν tôn kănăkhôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰνᾰχῇ têi kănăkhêi	τοῖν κᾰνᾰχαῖν toîn kănăkhaîn	ταῖς κᾰνᾰχαῖς taîs kănăkhaîs
Accusative	τὴν κᾰνᾰχήν tḕn kănăkhḗn	τὼ κᾰνᾰχᾱ́ tṑ kănăkhā́	τᾱ̀ς κᾰνᾰχᾱ́ς tā̀s kănăkhā́s
Vocative	κᾰνᾰχή kănăkhḗ	κᾰνᾰχᾱ́ kănăkhā́	κᾰνᾰχαί kănăkhaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

καναχέω (kanakhéō)
καναχηδά (kanakhēdá)
καναχηδής (kanakhēdḗs)
καναχήπους (kanakhḗpous)
καναχής (kanakhḗs)
καναχίζω (kanakhízō)
καναχός (kanakhós)

“καναχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“καναχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
καναχή 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