ὄρφνη

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Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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:

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ὄρφνη (órphnēf (genitive ὄρφνης); first declension

  1. darkness of night, night
    1. darkness of the nether world

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. 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
  2. ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (1999) “erkent-”, in A dictionary of Tocharian B (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN

Further reading

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