οὖνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The entry by Beekes in his Etymological Dictionary of Greek reads (in paraphrase):

"According to Mayer, it was borrowed from Egyptian wnj. Compare ἐριούνης (erioúnēs, “epithet of Hermes”)."

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ûː.non/ → /ˈu.non/ → /ˈu.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ûː.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈu.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈu.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈu.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈu.non/

Noun

οὖνον • (oûnon)

1. according to Hesychius, a Cypriot word for δρόμον (drómon, “course, race”).

Further reading

• “οὖνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “οὖνον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1127
• Hesychius' Lexicon: ο