μύνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained. The former connection with ἀμύνω (amúnō, “to defend”) is impossible because the prothetic vowel developed from a laryngeal, provided that the latter word is Indo-European.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /my̌ː.nɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.ne̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.ni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.ni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ni/

Noun

μῡ́νη • (mū́nē) f (genitive μῡ́νης); first declension

excuse, pretence, pretext

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μῡ́νη; τῆς μῡ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῡ́νη hē mū́nē	τὼ μῡ́νᾱ tṑ mū́nā	αἱ μῦναι hai mûnai
Genitive	τῆς μῡ́νης tês mū́nēs	τοῖν μῡ́ναιν toîn mū́nain	τῶν μῡνῶν tôn mūnôn
Dative	τῇ μῡ́νῃ tēî mū́nēi	τοῖν μῡ́ναιν toîn mū́nain	ταῖς μῡ́ναις taîs mū́nais
Accusative	τὴν μῡ́νην tḕn mū́nēn	τὼ μῡ́νᾱ tṑ mū́nā	τᾱ̀ς μῡ́νᾱς tā̀s mū́nās
Vocative	μῡ́νη mū́nē	μῡ́νᾱ mū́nā	μῦναι mûnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

μῡνάομαι (mūnáomai)

References

“μύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“μύνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
μύνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
μύνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
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