χέννιον
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Egyptian [script needed] (chennu).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰén.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰen.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈçen.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈçen.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈçe.ni.on/
Noun
[edit]χέννῐον • (khénnion) n (genitive χεννῐ́ου); second declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ χέννῐον tò khénnion |
τὼ χεννῐ́ω tṑ khenníō |
τᾰ̀ χέννῐᾰ tà khénnia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ χεννῐ́ου toû khenníou |
τοῖν χεννῐ́οιν toîn khenníoin |
τῶν χεννῐ́ων tôn khenníōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ χεννῐ́ῳ tôi khenníōi |
τοῖν χεννῐ́οιν toîn khenníoin |
τοῖς χεννῐ́οις toîs khenníois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ χέννῐον tò khénnion |
τὼ χεννῐ́ω tṑ khenníō |
τᾰ̀ χέννῐᾰ tà khénnia | ||||||||||
Vocative | χέννῐον khénnion |
χεννῐ́ω khenníō |
χέννῐᾰ khénnia | ||||||||||
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Etymology 2
[edit]According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek in view of the similarity with χάννη (khánnē, “comber”). However, Thompson considers a foreign origin, comparing both words with Egyptian [script needed] (chnā, “unknown kind of fish”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰén.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰen.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈçen.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈçen.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈçe.ni.on/
Noun
[edit]χέννιον • (khénnion)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: εἶδος ἰχθύος (eîdos ikhthúos, literally “kind of fish”).
Further reading
[edit]- “χέννιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χέννιον 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
- Hesychius' Lexicon: χ
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