χαμαί

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥may, a case form (perhaps dative or a fossilized directive?) of Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm (whence also χθών (khthṓn, “earth”). Cognates include Latin humī. Also compare πάλαι (pálai) and παραί (paraí).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰa.maí̯/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰaˈmɛ/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xaˈmɛ/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xaˈme/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xaˈme/

Adverb

χᾰμαί • (khamaí)

on the earth, near the ground
to the earth/ground

Derived terms

χᾰμαιλέων (khamailéōn)

χαμαί in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
χαμαί in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
χαμαί in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
χαμαί in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
χαμαί in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
χαμαί in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G5476 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ground idem, page 375.
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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