κικυμίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κῐκκᾰ́βη (kikkábē), κῐ́κῠβος (kíkubos), κῐ́κῠμος (kíkumos)

Etymology

Onomatopoeic word, like κικκαβαῦ (kikkabaû, “sound of the screech owl”). However, according to Beekes, the variations point also to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ki.ky.mís/ → /ci.cyˈmis/ → /ci.ciˈmis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ki.ky.mís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ki.kyˈmis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ci.cyˈmis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ci.cyˈmis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ci.ciˈmis/

Noun

κῐκῠμῐ́ς • (kikumís) f (genitive κῐκῠμῐ́δος); third declension

1. little owl (Athene noctua)

   Synonyms: γλαῦξ (glaûx), κρῐγή (krigḗ)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κῐκῠμῐ́ς; τῆς κῐκῠμῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῐκῠμῐ́ς hē kikumís	τὼ κῐκῠμῐ́δε tṑ kikumíde	αἱ κῐκῠμῐ́δες hai kikumídes
Genitive	τῆς κῐκῠμῐ́δος tês kikumídos	τοῖν κῐκῠμῐ́δοιν toîn kikumídoin	τῶν κῐκῠμῐ́δων tôn kikumídōn
Dative	τῇ κῐκῠμῐ́δῐ têi kikumídi	τοῖν κῐκῠμῐ́δοιν toîn kikumídoin	ταῖς κῐκῠμῐ́σῐ / κῐκῠμῐ́σῐν taîs kikumísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κῐκῠμῐ́δᾰ tḕn kikumída	τὼ κῐκῠμῐ́δε tṑ kikumíde	τᾱ̀ς κῐκῠμῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kikumídas
Vocative	κῐκῠμῐ́ς kikumís	κῐκῠμῐ́δε kikumíde	κῐκῠμῐ́δες kikumídes
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.

Further reading

• “κικυμίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κικυμίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κικκαβαῦ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 696