χήμη
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Quite uncertain. Taken to be a verbal noun to χάσκω (kháskō, “to yawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁y- (“to gape, be wide open”). Compare χηλός (khēlós, “coffer”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰɛ̌ː.mɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰe̝.me̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈçi.mi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈçi.mi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈçi.mi/
Noun
[edit]χήμη • (khḗmē) f (genitive χήμης); first declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ χήμη hē khḗmē |
τὼ χήμᾱ tṑ khḗmā |
αἱ χῆμαι hai khêmai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς χήμης tês khḗmēs |
τοῖν χήμαιν toîn khḗmain |
τῶν χημῶν tôn khēmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ χήμῃ têi khḗmēi |
τοῖν χήμαιν toîn khḗmain |
ταῖς χήμαις taîs khḗmais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν χήμην tḕn khḗmēn |
τὼ χήμᾱ tṑ khḗmā |
τᾱ̀ς χήμᾱς tā̀s khḗmās | ||||||||||
Vocative | χήμη khḗmē |
χήμᾱ khḗmā |
χῆμαι khêmai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Latin: chēma
Further reading
[edit]- “χήμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χήμη 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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