μήν

From Proto-Hellenic *méns (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”). Cognate with Latin mēnsis (“month”), and English moon, month.

• μείς (meís)
• μής (mḗs) — Laconian
• μεύς (meús) — Elean

μήν • (mḗn) m (genitive μηνός); third declension

1. Attic form of μείς (meís, “month”)

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₂. Cognate with Old Irish má (“if”).

• μᾱ́ν (mā́n) — Aeolic, Doric, Epic

μήν • (mḗn) (discourse particle)

1. used to strengthen statements: verily, surely, truly, definitely
2. (after other particles)
   1. (ἦ μήν) absolutely
   2. (καὶ μήν) used to introduce something new or convey affirmation
   3. (αλλὰ μήν) yet truly, on the other hand
   4. (οὐ μήν) certainly not
   5. (μήτε μήν) not even
3. (after interrogatives, τί μήν) of course, naturally
4. (after a negative) applies an adversative force

• “μήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μήν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μήν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μήν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3376 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• μήν in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • month idem, page 539.