ῥυκάνη
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
The formation is similar to σκαπάνη (skapánē), δρεπάνη (drepánē) and other instrument names, but the root is unknown. The word has been connected to Sanskrit स्रुच् (sruc, “sort of large wooden ladle”), but this fails to account for the meaning. A Pre-Greek origin is certainly a possibility for this word.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥y.ká.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ryˈka.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ryˈka.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ryˈka.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /riˈka.ni/
Noun edit
ῥῠκᾰ́νη • (rhukánē) f (genitive ῥῠκᾰ́νης); first declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῥῠκᾰ́νη hē rhukánē |
τὼ ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ rhukánā |
αἱ ῥῠκᾰ́ναι hai rhukánai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῥῠκᾰ́νης tês rhukánēs |
τοῖν ῥῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn rhukánain |
τῶν ῥῠκᾰνῶν tôn rhukanôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῥῠκᾰ́νῃ têi rhukánēi |
τοῖν ῥῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn rhukánain |
ταῖς ῥῠκᾰ́ναις taîs rhukánais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῥῠκᾰ́νην tḕn rhukánēn |
τὼ ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ rhukánā |
τᾱ̀ς ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s rhukánās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥῠκᾰ́νη rhukánē |
ῥῠκᾰ́νᾱ rhukánā |
ῥῠκᾰ́ναι rhukánai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Latin: runcīna
Further reading edit
- “ῥυκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥυκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥυκάνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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