Ἰκόνιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Luwian Ikkuwaniya, from Hittite Kawana

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.kó.ni.on/ → /iˈko.ni.on/ → /iˈko.ni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.kó.ni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈko.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈko.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈko.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈko.ni.on/

Proper noun

Ἰ̄κόνῐον • (Īkónion) n (genitive Ἰ̄κονῐ́ου); second declension

1. Konya (a city in Turkey), the ancient Iconium

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ Ἰ̄κόνῐον; τοῦ Ἰ̄κονῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	τὸ Ἰ̄κόνῐον tò Īkónion
Genitive	τοῦ Ἰ̄κονῐ́ου toû Īkoníou
Dative	τῷ Ἰ̄κονῐ́ῳ tôi Īkoníōi
Accusative	τὸ Ἰ̄κόνῐον tò Īkónion
Vocative	Ἰ̄κόνῐον Īkónion
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ικόνιο (Ikónio)
• → Latin: Iconium
  • English: Iconium
• → Ottoman Turkish: قونیه (Konya)
  • Turkish: Konya
    • English: Konya
  • → Armenian: Ղոնիա (Ġonia)
• Persian: قونیه (Quniye)

References

• G2430 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013