νίννη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same onomatopoeic origin of νόννος (nónnos, “father”), νάννας (nánnas, “uncle”) and νέννος (nénnos, “uncle”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nín.nɛː/ → /ˈnin.ni/ → /ˈni.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nín.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnin.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈnin.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈnin.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈni.ni/

Noun

νῐ́ννη • (nĭ́nnē) f (genitive νῐ́ννης); first declension

1. grandmother or mother-in-law

Inflection

First declension of ἡ νῐ́ννη; τῆς νῐ́ννης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νῐ́ννη hē nĭ́nnē	τὼ νῐ́ννᾱ tṑ nĭ́nnā	αἱ νῐ́νναι hai nĭ́nnai
Genitive	τῆς νῐ́ννης tês nĭ́nnēs	τοῖν νῐ́νναιν toîn nĭ́nnain	τῶν νῐννῶν tôn nĭnnôn
Dative	τῇ νῐ́ννῃ têi nĭ́nnēi	τοῖν νῐ́νναιν toîn nĭ́nnain	ταῖς νῐ́νναις taîs nĭ́nnais
Accusative	τὴν νῐ́ννην tḕn nĭ́nnēn	τὼ νῐ́ννᾱ tṑ nĭ́nnā	τᾱ̀ς νῐ́ννᾱς tā̀s nĭ́nnās
Vocative	νῐ́ννη nĭ́nnē	νῐ́ννᾱ nĭ́nnā	νῐ́νναι nĭ́nnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “νίννη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νίννη 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