χιών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kʰiṓn, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéyōm. Cognate with χεῖμα (kheîma, “snow”) and χειμών (kheimṓn, “winter”), Latin hiems, Welsh gaeaf, Sanskrit हिम (himá), Hittite 𒄀𒈠𒀭 (giman), Armenian ձմեռ (jmeṙ), Proto-Slavic *zima, Albanian dimër.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰi.ɔ̌ːn/ → /çiˈon/ → /çiˈon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰi.ɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰiˈon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çiˈon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çiˈon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çiˈon/

Noun

χῐών • (khiṓn) f (genitive χῐόνος); third declension

1. snow
2. melted snow, ice water

Usage notes

Sometimes with long ῑ (ī) for the sake of meter.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χῐών; τῆς χῐόνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χῐών hē khiṓn	τὼ χῐόνε tṑ khióne	αἱ χῐόνες hai khiónes
Genitive	τῆς χῐόνος tês khiónos	τοῖν χῐόνοιν toîn khiónoin	τῶν χῐόνων tôn khiónōn
Dative	τῇ χῐόνῐ têi khióni	τοῖν χῐόνοιν toîn khiónoin	ταῖς χῐόσῐ / χῐόσῐν taîs khiósi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χῐόνᾰ tḕn khióna	τὼ χῐόνε tṑ khióne	τᾱ̀ς χῐόνᾰς tā̀s khiónas
Vocative	χῐών khiṓn	χῐόνε khióne	χῐόνες khiónes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χῐόνῐνος (khióninos)

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲭⲓⲱⲛ (khiōn)
• ⇒ Koine Greek: χιόνιον (khiónion)
  • Byzantine Greek: χιόνι (khióni)
    • Greek: χιόνι (chióni)
    • Mariupol Greek: шон (šon)
• → New Latin: Chionanthus

Further reading

• “χιών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χιών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χιών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χιών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χιών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χιών”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5510 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • snow idem, page 789.