χάνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰan- / *gʰan- (“to yawn, to gape”), the same root of χάσκω (kháskō, “to yawn, gape”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰá.nos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰa.nos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.nos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.nos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxa.nos/

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Noun

χᾰ́νος • (khắnos) n (genitive χᾰ́νεος); third declension

mouth

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ χᾰ́νος; τοῦ χᾰ́νεος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ χᾰ́νος tò khắnos	τὼ χᾰ́νεε tṑ khắnee	τᾰ̀ χᾰ́νεᾰ tằ khắneă
Genitive	τοῦ χᾰ́νεος toû khắneos	τοῖν χᾰνέοιν toîn khănéoin	τῶν χᾰνέων tôn khănéōn
Dative	τῷ χᾰ́νεῐ̈ tôi khắneĭ̈	τοῖν χᾰνέοιν toîn khănéoin	τοῖς χᾰ́νεσῐ / χᾰ́νεσῐν toîs khắnesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ χᾰ́νος tò khắnos	τὼ χᾰ́νεε tṑ khắnee	τᾰ̀ χᾰ́νεᾰ tằ khắneă
Vocative	χᾰ́νος khắnos	χᾰ́νεε khắnee	χᾰ́νεᾰ khắneă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χάσκω (> DER > B. > 3. χάνος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1616-7