ὕδνον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οἶδνον (oîdnon), οἶτνον (oîtnon), ὕτνον (hútnon)

Etymology

The word has hesitantly been connected to ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) as "juicy", to ὕω (húō, “to rain”) as "rain plant" and to ὗς (hûs, “swine”) as "sow-bread". In view of the alternative forms, Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek word and links it with ἴτον (íton, “kind of mushroom”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.dnon/ → /ˈy.ðnon/ → /ˈi.ðnon/

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

Noun

ὕδνον • (húdnon) n (genitive ὕδνου); second declension

1. truffle, earthnut

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῠ̔́δνον; τοῦ ῠ̔́δνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῠ̔́δνον tò hŭ́dnon	τὼ ῠ̔́δνω tṑ hŭ́dnō	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́δνᾰ tằ hŭ́dnă
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́δνου toû hŭ́dnou	τοῖν ῠ̔́δνοιν toîn hŭ́dnoin	τῶν ῠ̔́δνων tôn hŭ́dnōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́δνῳ tôi hŭ́dnōi	τοῖν ῠ̔́δνοιν toîn hŭ́dnoin	τοῖς ῠ̔́δνοις toîs hŭ́dnois
Accusative	τὸ ῠ̔́δνον tò hŭ́dnon	τὼ ῠ̔́δνω tṑ hŭ́dnō	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́δνᾰ tằ hŭ́dnă
Vocative	ῠ̔́δνον hŭ́dnon	ῠ̔́δνω hŭ́dnō	ῠ̔́δνᾰ hŭ́dnă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὑδνόφῠλλον (hudnóphŭllon)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Hydnum

Further reading

• “ὕδνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὕδνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN