μά

See also: μα, -μα, and Appendix:Variations of "ma"

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /má/ → /ma/ → /ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /má/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ma/

Particle

μᾰ́ • (má)

1. by [+accusative]

   Μὰ τὸν Δία ― Mà tòn Día ― By Zeus

   Μὰ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ― Mà tḕn Athēnân ― By Athena

References

• “μά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• μά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • by idem, page 107.