ὕαινα
See also: ύαινα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὗς (hûs, “swine; pig”) + -αινα (-aina, feminine suffix), for its bristly mane similar to that of a hog.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hý.ai̯.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)y.ɛ.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.ɛ.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.e.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.e.na/
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῠ̔́αινᾰ hē húaina |
τὼ ῠ̔αίνᾱ tṑ huaínā |
αἱ ῠ̔́αιναι hai húainai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῠ̔αίνης tês huaínēs |
τοῖν ῠ̔αίναιν toîn huaínain |
τῶν ῠ̔αινῶν tôn huainôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῠ̔αίνῃ têi huaínēi |
τοῖν ῠ̔αίναιν toîn huaínain |
ταῖς ῠ̔αίναις taîs huaínais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῠ̔́αινᾰν tḕn húainan |
τὼ ῠ̔αίνᾱ tṑ huaínā |
τᾱ̀ς ῠ̔αίνᾱς tā̀s huaínās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῠ̔́αινᾰ húaina |
ῠ̔αίνᾱ huaínā |
ῠ̔́αιναι húainai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- → Basque: hiena
- → Czech: hyena
- → Danish: hyæne
- → Dutch: hyena
- → English: hyena
- → Estonian: hüään
- → Finnish: hyeena
- → French: hyène
- → Georgian: ჰიენა (hiena)
- → German: Hyäne
- Greek: ύαινα (ýaina)
- → Hungarian: hiéna
- → Irish: hiéana
- → Icelandic: híena
- → Italian: iena
- → Japanese: ハイエナ
- → Korean: 하이에나 (haiena)
- → Latin: hyaena
- → Latvian: hiēna
- → Lithuanian: hiena
- → Norwegian: hyene
- → Old Ruthenian: гѵє́на (hijéna)
- → Polish: hiena
- → Portuguese: hiena
- → Romanian: hienă
- → Middle Russian: иѥ́на (ijéna)
- Russian: гие́на (gijéna)
- → Slovak: hyena
- → Slovene: hijena
- → Spanish: hiena
- → Swedish: hyena
Further reading
- “ὕαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὕαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὕαινα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 412
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