σκύνιον
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editAccording to Beekes, the word derives from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”) and belongs together with Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“shelter, shack”), Latin obscūrus (“dark, obscure”), so that an r/n-stem is supposed. With a suffix -l-, there is σκύλος (skúlos, “animal's skin, hide”), σκῦλα (skûla, “spolia”). Perhaps the root is seen in Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers, protects”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ský.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsky.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈscy.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈscy.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsci.ni.on/
Noun
editσκῠ́νῐον • (skúnion) n (genitive σκῠνῐ́ου); second declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σκῠ́νῐον tò skúnion |
τὼ σκῠνῐ́ω tṑ skuníō |
τᾰ̀ σκῠ́νῐᾰ tà skúnia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σκῠνῐ́ου toû skuníou |
τοῖν σκῠνῐ́οιν toîn skuníoin |
τῶν σκῠνῐ́ων tôn skuníōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σκῠνῐ́ῳ tôi skuníōi |
τοῖν σκῠνῐ́οιν toîn skuníoin |
τοῖς σκῠνῐ́οις toîs skuníois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σκῠ́νῐον tò skúnion |
τὼ σκῠνῐ́ω tṑ skuníō |
τᾰ̀ σκῠ́νῐᾰ tà skúnia | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκῠ́νῐον skúnion |
σκῠνῐ́ω skuníō |
σκῠ́νῐᾰ skúnia | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- ἐπῐσκῠ́νῐον (episkúnion)
Further reading
edit- “σκύνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκύνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐπισκύνιον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 444
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek nouns
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- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
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