κάννα
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm, “reed”), whence also Mycenaean Greek 𐀒𐀜𐀛𐀠 (ko-no-ni-pi /konōni-pʰi/). There are indications, according to Beekes, it may have come through a Pre-Greek source, perhaps Anatolian.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kán.naː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.na/
Noun
editκᾰ́ννᾱ • (kánnā) f (genitive κᾰ́ννης); first declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κᾰ́ννᾱ hē kánnā |
τὼ κᾰ́ννᾱ tṑ kánnā |
αἱ κᾰ́νναι hai kánnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κᾰ́ννης tês kánnēs |
τοῖν κᾰ́νναιν toîn kánnain |
τῶν κᾰννῶν tôn kannôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κᾰ́ννῃ têi kánnēi |
τοῖν κᾰ́νναιν toîn kánnain |
ταῖς κᾰ́νναις taîs kánnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κᾰ́ννᾱν tḕn kánnān |
τὼ κᾰ́ννᾱ tṑ kánnā |
τᾱ̀ς κᾰ́ννᾱς tā̀s kánnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́ννᾱ kánnā |
κᾰ́ννᾱ kánnā |
κᾰ́νναι kánnai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- Greek: κάννη (kánni)
- → Latin: canna (see there for further descendants)
- ⇒ Latin: *cannālis, canālis (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάννα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 636
Further reading
edit- “κάννα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάννα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάννα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κάννα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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