ὕαινα

See also: ύαινα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sew-?

Proto-Indo-European *sewH-?

Proto-Indo-European *suH-

Proto-Hellenic *hūs

Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs)

Ancient Greek -αινα (-aina)

Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina)

From ὗς (hûs, “swine, pig”) +‎ -αινα (-aina, feminine suffix), for its bristly mane similar to that of a hog.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.ai̯.na/ → /ˈy.ɛ.na/ → /ˈi.e.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.ai̯.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.ɛ.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.ɛ.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.e.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.e.na/

Noun

ῠ̔́αινᾰ • (hŭ́aină) f (genitive ῠ̔αίνης); first declension

1. hyena

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ῠ̔́αινᾰ; τῆς ῠ̔αίνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῠ̔́αινᾰ hē hŭ́aină	τὼ ῠ̔αίνᾱ tṑ hŭaínā	αἱ ῠ̔́αιναι hai hŭ́ainai
Genitive	τῆς ῠ̔αίνης tês hŭaínēs	τοῖν ῠ̔αίναιν toîn hŭaínain	τῶν ῠ̔αινῶν tôn hŭainôn
Dative	τῇ ῠ̔αίνῃ têi hŭaínēi	τοῖν ῠ̔αίναιν toîn hŭaínain	ταῖς ῠ̔αίναις taîs hŭaínais
Accusative	τὴν ῠ̔́αινᾰν tḕn hŭ́ainăn	τὼ ῠ̔αίνᾱ tṑ hŭaínā	τᾱ̀ς ῠ̔αίνᾱς tā̀s hŭaínās
Vocative	ῠ̔́αινᾰ hŭ́aină	ῠ̔αίνᾱ hŭaínā	ῠ̔́αιναι hŭ́ainai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Basque: hiena
• → Czech: hyena
• → Danish: hyæne
• → Dutch: hyena
• → English: hyena
• → Estonian: hüään
• → Finnish: hyeena
• → French: hyène
• → Georgian: ჰიენა (hiena)
• → German: Hyäne
• Greek: ύαινα (ýaina)
• → Hungarian: hiéna
• → Irish: hiéana
• → Icelandic: híena
• → Italian: iena
• → Japanese: ハイエナ
• → Korean: 하이에나 (haiena)
• → Latin: hyaena
• → Latvian: hiēna
• → Lithuanian: hiena
• → Norwegian: hyene
• → Old Ruthenian: гѵє́на (hijéna)
• → Polish: hiena
• → Portuguese: hiena
• → Romanian: hienă
• → Middle Russian: иѥ́на (ijéna)
  • Russian: гие́на (gijéna)
• → Slovak: hyena
• → Slovene: hijena
• → Spanish: hiena
• → Swedish: hyena

Further reading

• “ὕαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὕαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὕαινα 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, page 412