τυκάνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τῠ́κος (tŭ́kos, “mason's hammer”) +‎ -ᾰ́νη (-ắnē, instrument noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ty.ká.nɛː/ → /tyˈka.ni/ → /tiˈka.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ty.ká.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tyˈka.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tyˈka.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tyˈka.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈka.ni/

Noun

τῠκᾰ́νη • (tŭkắnē) f (genitive τῠκᾰ́νης); first declension

1. kind of threshing instrument

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τῠκᾰ́νη; τῆς τῠκᾰ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τῠκᾰ́νη hē tŭkắnē	τὼ τῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ tŭkắnā	αἱ τῠκᾰ́ναι hai tŭkắnai
Genitive	τῆς τῠκᾰ́νης tês tŭkắnēs	τοῖν τῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn tŭkắnain	τῶν τῠκᾰνῶν tôn tŭkănôn
Dative	τῇ τῠκᾰ́νῃ têi tŭkắnēi	τοῖν τῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn tŭkắnain	ταῖς τῠκᾰ́ναις taîs tŭkắnais
Accusative	τὴν τῠκᾰ́νην tḕn tŭkắnēn	τὼ τῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ tŭkắnā	τᾱ̀ς τῠκᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s tŭkắnās
Vocative	τῠκᾰ́νη tŭkắnē	τῠκᾰ́νᾱ tŭkắnā	τῠκᾰ́ναι tŭkắnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: دوگن (düğen, düven)
  • Turkish: düven

Further reading

• “τυκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τυκάνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette