βύνη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βύνι (búni)

Etymology

Matches Classical Syriac ܒܽܘܢܳܐ (būnā, “barley soaked in water”).

The origin can be a technical term restricted from the well-known Middle Iranian word for “base, grounds” found as Classical Persian بن (bun) and others, securely reconstructed Proto-Iranian *buHnáh, Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰudʰnás.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈβy.ni/ → /ˈvi.ni/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈby.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβy.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvy.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ni/

Noun

βύνη • (búnē) f (genitive βύνης); first declension

1. malt for brewing

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βύνη; τῆς βύνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βύνη hē búnē	τὼ βύνᾱ tṑ búnā	αἱ βύναι hai búnai
Genitive	τῆς βύνης tês búnēs	τοῖν βύναιν toîn búnain	τῶν βυνῶν tôn bunôn
Dative	τῇ βύνῃ têi búnēi	τοῖν βύναιν toîn búnain	ταῖς βύναις taîs búnais
Accusative	τὴν βύνην tḕn búnēn	τὼ βύνᾱ tṑ búnā	τᾱ̀ς βύνᾱς tā̀s búnās
Vocative	βύνη búnē	βύνᾱ búnā	βύναι búnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: βύνη (výni)

References

• “βύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βύνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βύνη 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, page 248