βλέννα
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Often connected with Sanskrit मृदु (mṛdu, “soft, gentle”) and Middle Irish blind (“slime from the mouth of a dead man”). However, according to Furnée, the variations would prove a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /blén.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈblen.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβlen.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvlen.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvle.na/
Noun edit
βλέννα • (blénna) f (genitive βλέννης); first declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ βλέννᾰ hē blénna |
τὼ βλέννᾱ tṑ blénnā |
αἱ βλένναι hai blénnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς βλέννης tês blénnēs |
τοῖν βλένναιν toîn blénnain |
τῶν βλεννῶν tôn blennôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ βλέννῃ têi blénnēi |
τοῖν βλένναιν toîn blénnain |
ταῖς βλένναις taîs blénnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν βλέννᾰν tḕn blénnan |
τὼ βλέννᾱ tṑ blénnā |
τᾱ̀ς βλέννᾱς tā̀s blénnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | βλέννᾰ blénna |
βλέννᾱ blénnā |
βλένναι blénnai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “βλέννα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βλέννα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βλέννα 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
Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek βλεννός (blennós), probably of Pre-Greek origin hinted by the variations between π ~ β, νν ~ ν.
Noun edit
βλέννα • (vlénna) f (plural βλέννες)
Declension edit
declension of βλέννα
Further reading edit
- βλέννα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el