μάρη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Forssman doubts the authenticity of this word and Blanc supposes that the form was coined to explain εὐμαρής (eumarḗs). Former comparisons with Germanic and Celtic words, to be found in Frisk, are now obsolete. Mallory and Adams suggest Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”)), comparing Latin manus, Hittite [script needed] (manii̯aḫḫ-ⁱ, “to distribute, entrust”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /má.rɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.re̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ri/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ri/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ri/

Noun

μᾰ́ρη • (mắrē) f (genitive μᾰ́ρης); first declension

(hapax legomenon) hand

Declension

First declension of ἡ μᾰ́ρη; τῆς μᾰ́ρης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μᾰ́ρη hē mắrē	τὼ μᾰ́ρᾱ tṑ mắrā	αἱ μᾰ́ραι hai mắrai
Genitive	τῆς μᾰ́ρης tês mắrēs	τοῖν μᾰ́ραιν toîn mắrain	τῶν μᾰρῶν tôn mărôn
Dative	τῇ μᾰ́ρῃ tēî mắrēi	τοῖν μᾰ́ραιν toîn mắrain	ταῖς μᾰ́ραις taîs mắrais
Accusative	τὴν μᾰ́ρην tḕn mắrēn	τὼ μᾰ́ρᾱ tṑ mắrā	τᾱ̀ς μᾰ́ρᾱς tā̀s mắrās
Vocative	μᾰ́ρη mắrē	μᾰ́ρᾱ mắrā	μᾰ́ραι mắrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

εὐμαρής (eumarḗs)

References

“μάρη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μάρη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
μάρη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
μάρη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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

^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pages 254-55

[1] Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pages 254-55

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