ὕαινα
See also: ύαινα
Ancient GreekEdit
EtymologyEdit
From ὗς (hûs, “swine; pig”) + -αινα (-aina, “feminine suffix”), for its bristly mane similar to that of a hog.
PronunciationEdit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hý.ai̯.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)y.ɛ.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.ɛ.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.e.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.e.na/
NounEdit
ῠ̔́αινᾰ • (húaina) f (genitive ῠ̔αίνης); first declension
InflectionEdit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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DescendantsEdit
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
Further readingEdit
- 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