χνόη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χνοίη (khnoíē) — Ionic

Etymology

The entry by Beekes in his Etymological Dictionary of Greek reads (in paraphrase):

"Related to χνόος (khnóos, “incrustation from salt-water; wool, down”). Both words have been connected to χναύω (khnaúō, “to nibble”) and χνίω (khníō, “to break in small pieces”). Reasonable connections can then be found in Old Norse gnúa (“to rub”) and Proto-Slavic *gnusъ. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *knew- (“to scrape; scratch; rub”) and related to κνίζω (knízō, “to pound, grate”) and κνύω (knúō, “to scratch”)."

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰnó.ɛː/ → /ˈxno.i/ → /ˈxno.i/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰnó.ɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰno.e̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxno.i/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxno.i/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxno.i/

Noun

χνόη • (khnóē) f (genitive χνόης); first declension

1. nave, hub, the cylindrical central part of a wheel

   Synonym: πλήμνη (plḗmnē)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ χνόη; τῆς χνόης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χνόη hē khnóē	τὼ χνόᾱ tṑ khnóā	αἱ χνόαι hai khnóai
Genitive	τῆς χνόης tês khnóēs	τοῖν χνόαιν toîn khnóain	τῶν χνοῶν tôn khnoôn
Dative	τῇ χνόῃ têi khnóēi	τοῖν χνόαιν toîn khnóain	ταῖς χνόαις taîs khnóais
Accusative	τὴν χνόην tḕn khnóēn	τὼ χνόᾱ tṑ khnóā	τᾱ̀ς χνόᾱς tā̀s khnóās
Vocative	χνόη khnóē	χνόᾱ khnóā	χνόαι khnóai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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