Ῥῆνος
See also: Ρήνος
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From a Gaulish *Rēnos (which was also the source of Proto-Germanic *Rīnaz).
The Greek form is recorded in Strabo’s Geographica (1.4.3), written between 20 BC and AD 20, slightly later than the Latin equivalent Rhenus (Cicerio, In Pisonem, ca. 55 BCE).
The Gaulish name is from Proto-Celtic *rēnos, from the Proto-Indo-European root *rey- (“to flow”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɛ̂ː.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈre̝.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈri.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈri.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.nos/
Proper noun edit
Ῥῆνος • (Rhênos) m (genitive Ῥήνου); second declension
- the river Rhine
Declension edit
Related terms edit
- Afrikaans: Ryn
- Albanian: Rhein
- Alemannic German: Rhein
- Amharic: ራይን (rayn)
- Arabic: راين
- Basque: Rhin
- Breton: Roen
- Bulgarian: Рейн (Rejn)
- Catalan: Rin
- Chuvash: Рейн (Rejn)
- Corsican: Renu
- Czech: Rýn
- Danish: Rhinen
- Dutch: Rijn
- English: Rhine
- Estonian: Rein
- Finnish: Rein
- French: Rhin
- Galician: Rhin
- German: Rhein
- Central Franconian: Rhing
- Hebrew: רינוס
- Hungarian: Rajna
- Icelandic: Rín
- Indonesian: Rhein
- Irish: Réin
- Italian: Reno
- Japanese: ライン (Rain)
- Korean: 라인 (rain)
- Latin: Rhēnus
- Latvian: Reina
- Lithuanian: Reinas
- Lombard: Renu
- Low German: Rhien
- Luxembourgish: Rhäin
- Malaysian: Rhine
- Marathi: र्हाइन (rhāin)
- Norwegian: Rhinen
- Occitan: Ren
- Old English: Rīn
- Persian: راین
- Polish: Ren
- Portuguese: Reno
- Quechua: Rhein
- Romanian: Rin
- Romansch: Rain
- Russian: Рейн (Rejn)
- Serbo-Croatian: Рајна, Rajna
- Sicilian: Rinu
- Slovak: Rýn
- Slovene: Ren
- Spanish: Rin
- Swahili: Rhine
- Swedish: Rhen
- Turkish: Ren
- Ukrainian: Рейн (Rejn)
- Welsh: Rhein
- West Frisian: Ryn
Descendants edit
References edit
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024