κόμμι

Ancient Greek

Borrowed from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”) or qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).^[1]

κόμμῐ • (kómmĭ) n (genitive κόμμεως); third declension

Third declension of τὸ κόμμῐ; τοῦ κόμμεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κόμμῐ tò kómmĭ	τὼ κόμμει tṑ kómmei	τᾰ̀ κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ tằ kómmē / kómmeă
Genitive	τοῦ κόμμεως toû kómmeōs	τοῖν κομμέοιν toîn komméoin	τῶν κόμμεων tôn kómmeōn
Dative	τῷ κόμμει tōî kómmei	τοῖν κομμέοιν toîn komméoin	τοῖς κόμμεσῐ / κόμμεσῐν toîs kómmesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ κόμμῐ tò kómmĭ	τὼ κόμμει tṑ kómmei	τᾰ̀ κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ tằ kómmē / kómmeă
Vocative	κόμμῐ kómmĭ	κόμμει kómmei	κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ kómmē / kómmeă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

→ Aramaic: (“gum particularly of acacia”)
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: קוֹמָּא (qommā), קוֹמּוֹס (qommōs)

Classical Syriac: ܩܘܡܐ (qommā), ܩܡܘܣ (qammūs), ܩܡܘܨ (qammūṣ), ܩܡܘܙ (qammūz)
- → Amharic: ኮማ (koma, “a kind of large Ferula resembling Ferula communis subsp. communis from the leaves of which also cake is baken”).
- → Persian: کما (komâ, kamâ, “various Ferula and the gum thereof”)
→ Middle Hebrew: קוֹמּוֹס (qommōs)
→ Latin: cummis, gummis, commis, cummi, gummi, commi (see there for further descendants)

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόμμι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 744

From Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”),

qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).

κόμμι • (kómmi) n (plural κόμμεα)