Μαίανδρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. According to Bernal, possibly connected to μαῖα (maîa, “old woman, midwife”), although he considers a Semitic origin more probable: Biblical Hebrew מְעִי (məʿy, “bowels, intestines; womb, source of procreation”), plural מֵעַיִם (mēʿayim), cf. Egyptian qꜣb (“intestine”), plural qꜣbw (“windings of a waterway”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mǎi̯.an.dros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.an.dros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.an.dros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.an.dros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈme.an.dros/

Proper noun

Μαίανδρος • (Maíandros) m (genitive Μαιάνδρου); second declension

the river Maeander; the river Büyük Menderes

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Μαίανδρος; τοῦ Μαιάνδρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Μαίανδρος ho Maíandros
Genitive	τοῦ Μαιάνδρου toû Maiándrou
Dative	τῷ Μαιάνδρῳ tōî Maiándrōi
Accusative	τὸν Μαίανδρον tòn Maíandron
Vocative	Μαίανδρε Maíandre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ English: Maeander; meander
Greek: Μαίανδρος (Maíandros)
Latin: Maeander, Maeandrus, Maeandros
→ Turkish: Menderes

References

^ Bernal, Martin (2006) Black Athena. Volume III. The Linguistic Evidence, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN

“Μαίανδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Μαίανδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Μαίανδρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016

[1] Bernal, Martin (2006) Black Athena. Volume III. The Linguistic Evidence, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN

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