λεκάνη

Ancient Greek

From λέκος (lékos, “dish, pot, pan”) +‎ -ᾰ́νη (-ắnē, suffix for utensil names), alleged to be from Pre-Greek, however see λᾰ́γῡνος/λᾰ́γῠνος (lắgūnos/lắgŭnos, “flask”).

λεκᾰ́νη • (lekắnē) f (genitive λεκᾰ́νης); first declension

First declension of ἡ λεκᾰ́νη; τῆς λεκᾰ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λεκᾰ́νη hē lekắnē	τὼ λεκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ lekắnā	αἱ λεκᾰ́ναι hai lekắnai
Genitive	τῆς λεκᾰ́νης tês lekắnēs	τοῖν λεκᾰ́ναιν toîn lekắnain	τῶν λεκᾰνῶν tôn lekănôn
Dative	τῇ λεκᾰ́νῃ tēî lekắnēi	τοῖν λεκᾰ́ναιν toîn lekắnain	ταῖς λεκᾰ́ναις taîs lekắnais
Accusative	τὴν λεκᾰ́νην tḕn lekắnēn	τὼ λεκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ lekắnā	τᾱ̀ς λεκᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s lekắnās
Vocative	λεκᾰ́νη lekắnē	λεκᾰ́νᾱ lekắnā	λεκᾰ́ναι lekắnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Greek: λεκάνη (lekáni)
→ Aramaic: לַקְנָא / ܠܲܩܢܵܐ (laqnā), לִקְנָא (liqnā)
- → Arabic: لَقَن (laqan), لَكَن (lakan)
→ Classical Persian: لَگَن (lagan) (see there for further descendants)
→ Coptic: ⲗⲁⲕⲁⲛⲏ (lakanē)
→ Old Armenian: ղեկան (łekan), լեկան (lekan)
→ Old Georgian: ლაკანი (laḳani), ლანკანი (lanḳani)
→? Kipchak:
- →? Old East Slavic: лоханꙗ (loxanja)
  - Old Ruthenian: лоханꙗ (loxanja), лоханьꙗ (loxanʹja)
    - Belarusian: лаха́н (laxán), лаха́нь (laxánʹ), лаха́ня (laxánja) (dialectal)
    - Ukrainian: лоха́ня (loxánja) (dialectal)
    - → Polish: łасhаń; lасhаniа, łосhаniа (dialectal)
      - →? Polabian: laxėn
  - Russian: лоха́нь (loxánʹ)
→? Bulgarian: лака́н (lakán), лака́ня (lakánja)

“λεκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“λεκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
λεκάνη 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- charger idem, page 125.
- dish idem, page 234.
- plate idem, page 618.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

λεκάνη • (lekáni) f (plural λεκάνες)