εὐνή
See also: ευνή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Compare Old Irish huom, uom, Avestan 𐬎𐬥𐬁 (unā), and Latin exuō, venus.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eu̯.nɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ewˈne/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈβni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈvni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈvni/
Noun
εὐνή • (eunḗ) f (genitive εὐνῆς); first declension
- bed
- bedding
- abode, layer
- marriage bed
- grave
- (in the plural) stones thrown from a ship and used as anchors
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ εὐνή hē eunḗ |
τὼ εὐνᾱ́ tṑ eunā́ |
αἱ εὐναί hai eunaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς εὐνῆς tês eunês |
τοῖν εὐναῖν toîn eunaîn |
τῶν εὐνῶν / εὐνῆφι tôn eunôn / eunêphi | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ εὐνῇ têi eunêi |
τοῖν εὐναῖν toîn eunaîn |
ταῖς εὐναῖς taîs eunaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν εὐνήν tḕn eunḗn |
τὼ εὐνᾱ́ tṑ eunā́ |
τᾱ̀ς εὐνᾱ́ς tā̀s eunā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | εὐνή eunḗ |
εὐνᾱ́ eunā́ |
εὐναί eunaí | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Epic also has εὐνῆφι(ν) for the genitive singular and plural. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Greek: ευνή (evní)
Further reading
- εὐνή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- εὐνή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εὐνή in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- εὐνή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- εὐνή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bed idem, page 68.
- couch idem, page 176.
- marriage idem, page 514.
- marriage bed idem, page 514.
- wedlock idem, page 972.
- 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
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