ἄχνη
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editHas been connected with Latin agna (“ear of grain”) and English awn. According to Beekes, the word must be connected with ἄχυρον (ákhuron, “chaff”), pointing thus to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.kʰnɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.kʰne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.xni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.xni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.xni/
Noun
editἄχνη • (ákhnē) f (genitive ἄχνης); first declension
- anything that comes off the surface
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἄχνη hē ákhnē |
τὼ ἄχνᾱ tṑ ákhnā |
αἱ ἄχναι hai ákhnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἄχνης tês ákhnēs |
τοῖν ἄχναιν toîn ákhnain |
τῶν ἀχνῶν tôn akhnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἄχνῃ têi ákhnēi |
τοῖν ἄχναιν toîn ákhnain |
ταῖς ἄχναις taîs ákhnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἄχνην tḕn ákhnēn |
τὼ ἄχνᾱ tṑ ákhnā |
τᾱ̀ς ἄχνᾱς tā̀s ákhnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄχνη ákhnē |
ἄχνᾱ ákhnā |
ἄχναι ákhnai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
editReferences
edit- “ἄχνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄχνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄχνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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
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