ἄγαν

Ancient Greek edit

Etymology edit

Per Beekes (Beekes 2010: 8) from the accusative singular *m̥ǵ-éh₂-m of Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“great”), whence μέγας (mégas).^[1] For Beekes this form is important evidence for his hysterodynamic inflection type. The long ᾱ might be from another dialect.

Pronunciation edit

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.ɡaːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡan/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɣan/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɣan/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɣan/

Adverb edit

ᾰ̓́γᾱν • (ágān)

very much
too much, excessively
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.173.2:
  ὦ βασιλεῦ, οὐκ ὀρθῶς, σεωυτοῦ προέστηκας, ἐς τὸ ἄγαν φαῦλον προάγων σεωυτόν.
  ô basileû, ouk orthôs, seōutoû proéstēkas, es tò ágan phaûlon proágōn seōutón.
  Oh king, you do not govern yourself rightly, by inducing yourself to too much baseness.

References edit

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἄγᾱν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 8

Further reading edit

“ἄγαν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἄγαν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἄγαν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
ἄγαν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
ἄγαν - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἄγᾱν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 8

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