ἀμνίον

Ancient Greek

Unknown. A connection with ἀμάομαι (amáomai, “to draw (milk)”) is no more than a guess.

Compare Sanskrit अमत्रक (amatraka, “drinking vessel”) and Latin ampla (“handle”) (both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂em- (“to grasp”)),^[1] as well as Latin sentina (“bilgewater”) (from *semH- (“to scoop”)).^[2] Also see ἄμη (ámē, “water bucket”), ἀμάω (amáō, “to gather, harvest”).

ἀμνῐ́ον • (amníon) n (genitive ἀμνῐ́ου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἀμνῐ́ον tò amníon	τὼ ἀμνῐ́ω tṑ amníō	τᾰ̀ ἀμνῐ́ᾰ tà amnía
Genitive	τοῦ ἀμνῐ́ου toû amníou	τοῖν ἀμνῐ́οιν toîn amníoin	τῶν ἀμνῐ́ων tôn amníōn
Dative	τῷ ἀμνῐ́ῳ tôi amníōi	τοῖν ἀμνῐ́οιν toîn amníoin	τοῖς ἀμνῐ́οις toîs amníois
Accusative	τὸ ἀμνῐ́ον tò amníon	τὼ ἀμνῐ́ω tṑ amníō	τᾰ̀ ἀμνῐ́ᾰ tà amnía
Vocative	ἀμνῐ́ον amníon	ἀμνῐ́ω amníō	ἀμνῐ́ᾰ amnía
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

From ἀμνός (amnós, “lamb”) +‎ -ῐ́ον (-íon, diminutive suffix).

ἀμνῐ́ον • (amníon) n (genitive ἀμνῐ́ου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἀμνῐ́ον tò amníon	τὼ ἀμνῐ́ω tṑ amníō	τᾰ̀ ἀμνῐ́ᾰ tà amnía
Genitive	τοῦ ἀμνῐ́ου toû amníou	τοῖν ἀμνῐ́οιν toîn amníoin	τῶν ἀμνῐ́ων tôn amníōn
Dative	τῷ ἀμνῐ́ῳ tôi amníōi	τοῖν ἀμνῐ́οιν toîn amníoin	τοῖς ἀμνῐ́οις toîs amníois
Accusative	τὸ ἀμνῐ́ον tò amníon	τὼ ἀμνῐ́ω tṑ amníō	τᾰ̀ ἀμνῐ́ᾰ tà amnía
Vocative	ἀμνῐ́ον amníon	ἀμνῐ́ω amníō	ἀμνῐ́ᾰ amnía
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 330
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀμάομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 82