αἱμασιά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes compares the word with Latin saepēs (“hedge”), with a change from "p" to "m".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hai̯.ma.si.ǎː/ → /ɛ.ma.siˈa/ → /e.ma.siˈa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hai̯.ma.si.ǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ɛ.ma.siˈa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɛ.ma.siˈa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ma.siˈa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.ma.siˈa/

Noun

αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ • (haimasiā́) f (genitive αἱμᾰσῐᾶς); first declension

1. wall of dry stones

Inflection

First declension of ἡ αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́; τῆς αἱμᾰσῐᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ hē haimasiā́	τὼ αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ tṑ haimasiā́	αἱ αἱμᾰσῐαί hai haimasiaí
Genitive	τῆς αἱμᾰσῐᾶς tês haimasiâs	τοῖν αἱμᾰσῐαῖν toîn haimasiaîn	τῶν αἱμᾰσῐῶν tôn haimasiôn
Dative	τῇ αἱμᾰσῐᾷ têi haimasiâi	τοῖν αἱμᾰσῐαῖν toîn haimasiaîn	ταῖς αἱμᾰσῐαῖς taîs haimasiaîs
Accusative	τὴν αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ν tḕn haimasiā́n	τὼ αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ tṑ haimasiā́	τᾱ̀ς αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ς tā̀s haimasiā́s
Vocative	αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ haimasiā́	αἱμᾰσῐᾱ́ haimasiā́	αἱμᾰσῐαί haimasiaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αιμασιά (aimasiá)

Further reading

• “αἱμασιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αἱμασιά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αἱμασιά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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