Πρόκνη
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From περκνός (perknós, “dark-spotted”), used to refer to eagles, from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pró.knɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kni/
Proper noun edit
Πρόκνη • (Próknē) f (genitive Πρόκνης); first declension
Inflection edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
- 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