ὕαινα

See also: ύαινα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὗς (hûs, “swine; pig”) +‎ -αινα (-aina, “feminine suffix”), for its bristly mane similar to that of a hog.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.ai̯.na/ → /ˈy.ɛ.na/ → /ˈi.e.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.ai̯.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.ɛ.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.ɛ.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.e.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.e.na/

Noun

ῠ̔́αινᾰ • (húaina) f (genitive ῠ̔αίνης); first declension

1. hyena

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ῠ̔́αινᾰ; τῆς ῠ̔αίνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῠ̔́αινᾰ hē húaina	τὼ ῠ̔αίνᾱ tṑ huaínā	αἱ ῠ̔́αιναι hai húainai
Genitive	τῆς ῠ̔αίνης tês huaínēs	τοῖν ῠ̔αίναιν toîn huaínain	τῶν ῠ̔αινῶν tôn huainôn
Dative	τῇ ῠ̔αίνῃ têi huaínēi	τοῖν ῠ̔αίναιν toîn huaínain	ταῖς ῠ̔αίναις taîs huaínais
Accusative	τὴν ῠ̔́αινᾰν tḕn húainan	τὼ ῠ̔αίνᾱ tṑ huaínā	τᾱ̀ς ῠ̔αίνᾱς tā̀s huaínās
Vocative	ῠ̔́αινᾰ húaina	ῠ̔αίνᾱ huaínā	ῠ̔́αιναι húainai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Basque: hiena
• Czech: hyena
• Danish: hyæne
• Dutch: hyena
• English: hyena
• Estonian: hüään
• Finnish: hyeena
• French: hyène
• Georgian: ჰიენა (hiena)
• German: Hyäne
• Greek: ύαινα (ýaina)
• Hungarian: hiéna
• Irish: hiéana
• Icelandic: híena
• Italian: iena

• Japanese: ハイエナ
• Korean: 하이에나 (haiena)
• Latin: hyaena
• Latvian: hiēna
• Lithuanian: hiena
• Norwegian: hyene
• Old Ruthenian: гѵє́на (hijéna)
  • Belarusian: гіе́на (hijéna)
  • Rusyn: гіє́на (hijéna)
  • Ukrainian: гіє́на (hijéna)
• Polish: hiena
• Portuguese: hiena
• Romanian: hienă
• Middle Russian: иѥ́на (ijéna)
  • Russian: гие́на (gijéna)
• Slovak: hyena
• Slovene: hijena
• Spanish: hiena
• Swedish: hyena

Further reading

• ὕαινα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὕαινα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὕαινα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 412