νέννος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Onomatopoeic word; compare Latin nonnus (“monk; old person”), Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”), Sanskrit नना (nanā, “mother, mama”), Russian ня́ня (njánja, “nurse”). Within Greek, we found νόννος (nónnos, “father”), νάννας (nánnas, “uncle”) and νίννη (nínnē, “grandmother”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nén.nos/ → /ˈnen.nos/ → /ˈne.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nén.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnen.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈnen.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈnen.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈne.nos/

Noun

νέννος • (nénnos) m (genitive νέννου); second declension

1. maternal or paternal brother, uncle
2. maternal grandfather

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ νέννος; τοῦ νέννου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ νέννος ho nénnos	τὼ νέννω tṑ nénnō	οἱ νέννοι hoi nénnoi
Genitive	τοῦ νέννου toû nénnou	τοῖν νέννοιν toîn nénnoin	τῶν νέννων tôn nénnōn
Dative	τῷ νέννῳ tôi nénnōi	τοῖν νέννοιν toîn nénnoin	τοῖς νέννοις toîs nénnois
Accusative	τὸν νέννον tòn nénnon	τὼ νέννω tṑ nénnō	τοὺς νέννους toùs nénnous
Vocative	νέννε nénne	νέννω nénnō	νέννοι nénnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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