χέννιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Egyptian [script needed] (chennu).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰén.ni.on/ → /ˈçen.ni.on/ → /ˈçe.ni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰén.ni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰen.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈçen.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈçen.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈçe.ni.on/

Noun

χέννῐον • (khénnion) n (genitive χεννῐ́ου); second declension

1. quail, salted and eaten by the Egyptians

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ χέννῐον; τοῦ χεννῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ χέννῐον tò khénnion	τὼ χεννῐ́ω tṑ khenníō	τᾰ̀ χέννῐᾰ tà khénnia
Genitive	τοῦ χεννῐ́ου toû khenníou	τοῖν χεννῐ́οιν toîn khenníoin	τῶν χεννῐ́ων tôn khenníōn
Dative	τῷ χεννῐ́ῳ tôi khenníōi	τοῖν χεννῐ́οιν toîn khenníoin	τοῖς χεννῐ́οις toîs khenníois
Accusative	τὸ χέννῐον tò khénnion	τὼ χεννῐ́ω tṑ khenníō	τᾰ̀ χέννῐᾰ tà khénnia
Vocative	χέννῐον khénnion	χεννῐ́ω khenníō	χέννῐᾰ khénnia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Etymology 2

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek in view of the similarity with χάννη (khánnē, “comber”). However, Thompson considers a foreign origin, comparing both words with Egyptian [script needed] (chnā, “unknown kind of fish”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰén.ni.on/ → /ˈçen.ni.on/ → /ˈçe.ni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰén.ni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰen.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈçen.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈçen.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈçe.ni.on/

Noun

χέννιον • (khénnion)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: εἶδος ἰχθύος (eîdos ikhthúos, literally “kind of fish”).

Further reading

• “χέννιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χέννιον 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: χ