Ὑμέης
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- Ὑμαίς (Humaís)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Persian *Humāya (literally “beneficial, wholesome”).[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)yˈme.e̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /yˈme.is/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /yˈme.is/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈme.is/
Proper noun edit
Ὑμέης • (Huméēs) m (genitive Ὑμέου); third declension
- a male given name from Old Persian: Hymees, son-in-law of king Darius
Inflection edit
Descendants edit
- → Latin: Hymeēs
References edit
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*humāya-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 125
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.802. *Humāya-”, in Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 207
Further reading edit
- Ὑμέης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette