κνῆκος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • κνᾶκος (knâkos) — Doric

Etymology

Mycenaean Greek 𐀏𐀙𐀒 (ka-na-ko) points to Proto-Hellenic *knā́kos. Related in some way (via an adjective “honey-colored”) to the Proto-Indo-European “honey” word reconstructed as *kn̥h₂ónks (largely for pre-Germanic; compare English honey, Albanian qengjë (“beehive”) and Latin canicae (“bran”)), but no consistent paradigm for this word can be reconstructed, and thus it is uncertain. Further complicating the matter is that safflower is not native to Greece.[1] Nonetheless, the adjective in question is possibly Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂-ḱó-s.[2]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κνῆκος • (knêkos) f (genitive κνῆκου); second declension

  1. safflower (Carthamus tinctorius)

Declension

Second declension of ἡ κνῆκος; τῆς κνήκου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ κνῆκος
hē knêkos 		τὼ κνήκω
tṑ knḗkō 		αἱ κνῆκοι
hai knêkoi
Genitive τῆς κνήκου
tês knḗkou 		τοῖν κνήκοιν
toîn knḗkoin 		τῶν κνήκων
tôn knḗkōn
Dative τῇ κνήκῳ
tēî knḗkōi 		τοῖν κνήκοιν
toîn knḗkoin 		ταῖς κνήκοις
taîs knḗkois
Accusative τὴν κνῆκον
tḕn knêkon 		τὼ κνήκω
tṑ knḗkō 		τᾱ̀ς κνήκους
tā̀s knḗkous
Vocative κνῆκε
knêke 		κνήκω
knḗkō 		κνῆκοι
knêkoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Latin: cnēcos

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κνῆκος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 722–723
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*hunanga-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 255

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