νέννος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Onomatopoeic word; compare Latin nonnus (“monk; old person”), Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”), Sanskrit नना (nanā, “mother, mama”), Russian ня́ня (njánja, “nurse”). Within Greek, we found νόννος (nónnos, “father”), νάννας (nánnas, “uncle”) and νίννη (nínnē, “grandmother”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nén.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈnen.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈnen.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈnen.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈne.nos/
Noun
[edit]νέννος • (nénnos) m (genitive νέννου); second declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ νέννος ho nénnos |
τὼ νέννω tṑ nénnō |
οἱ νέννοι hoi nénnoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ νέννου toû nénnou |
τοῖν νέννοιν toîn nénnoin |
τῶν νέννων tôn nénnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ νέννῳ tôi nénnōi |
τοῖν νέννοιν toîn nénnoin |
τοῖς νέννοις toîs nénnois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν νέννον tòn nénnon |
τὼ νέννω tṑ nénnō |
τοὺς νέννους toùs nénnous | ||||||||||
Vocative | νέννε nénne |
νέννω nénnō |
νέννοι nénnoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
[edit]- “νέννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νέννος 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
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- Ancient Greek onomatopoeias
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- grc:Male family members