ὄρφνη
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from Proto-Hellenic *orkʷʰnā, a secondary o-grade of *erkʷʰnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rgʷ-sno-, from *h₁régʷos (“darkness”) (whence Ἔρεβος (Érebos)).[1]
Alternatively from the same root as:
- Proto-Germanic *erpaz and Slavic forms Russian рябо́й (rjabój, “motley”) and Proto-Slavic *arębъ (“partridge”).[1]
- Old Armenian արջն (arǰn, “black”).[1]
- Tocharian B / Tocharian A erkent- / arkant- (“black”) and orkamo / orkäm (“dark”).[2][1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ór.pʰnɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈor.pʰne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.ɸni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.fni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.fni/
Noun
[edit]ὄρφνη • (órphnē) f (genitive ὄρφνης); first declension
- darkness of night, night
- 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1077
- Ti.Locr. 97c97d
- darkness of the nether world
- 353
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὄρφνη hē órphnē |
τὼ ὄρφνᾱ tṑ órphnā |
αἱ ὄρφναι hai órphnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὄρφνης tês órphnēs |
τοῖν ὄρφναιν toîn órphnain |
τῶν ὀρφνῶν tôn orphnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὄρφνῃ têi órphnēi |
τοῖν ὄρφναιν toîn órphnain |
ταῖς ὄρφναις taîs órphnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὄρφνην tḕn órphnēn |
τὼ ὄρφνᾱ tṑ órphnā |
τᾱ̀ς ὄρφνᾱς tā̀s órphnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄρφνη órphnē |
ὄρφνᾱ órphnā |
ὄρφναι órphnai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὄρφνη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1114
- ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (1999) “erkent-”, in A dictionary of Tocharian B (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “ὄρφνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄρφνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄρφνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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