νάκη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νάκος (nákos)

Etymology

Has been connected with Old English næsc (“soft leather; deer skin”) but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ná.kɛː/ → /ˈna.ci/ → /ˈna.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ná.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈna.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈna.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈna.ci/

Noun

νᾰ́κη • (nákē) f (genitive νᾰ́κης); first declension

1. woolen skin, fleece

Inflection

First declension of ἡ νᾰ́κη; τῆς νᾰ́κης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νᾰ́κη hē nákē	τὼ νᾰ́κᾱ tṑ nákā	αἱ νᾰ́και hai nákai
Genitive	τῆς νᾰ́κης tês nákēs	τοῖν νᾰ́καιν toîn nákain	τῶν νᾰκῶν tôn nakôn
Dative	τῇ νᾰ́κῃ têi nákēi	τοῖν νᾰ́καιν toîn nákain	ταῖς νᾰ́καις taîs nákais
Accusative	τὴν νᾰ́κην tḕn nákēn	τὼ νᾰ́κᾱ tṑ nákā	τᾱ̀ς νᾰ́κᾱς tā̀s nákās
Vocative	νᾰ́κη nákē	νᾰ́κᾱ nákā	νᾰ́και nákai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κατωνάκη (katōnákē)
• νακοδέψης (nakodépsēs)
• νακύριον (nakúrion)

 

Descendants

• Italian: naca
• Sicilian: naca

Further reading

• “νάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νάκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νάκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νάκη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νάκη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 994