νάκη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- νάκος (nákos)
Etymology
Has been connected with Old English næsc (“soft leather; deer skin”) but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ná.kɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈna.ke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈna.ci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈna.ci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈna.ci/
Noun
νᾰ́κη • (nắkē) f (genitive νᾰ́κης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ νᾰ́κη hē nắkē |
τὼ νᾰ́κᾱ tṑ nắkā |
αἱ νᾰ́και hai nắkai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς νᾰ́κης tês nắkēs |
τοῖν νᾰ́καιν toîn nắkain |
τῶν νᾰκῶν tôn năkôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ νᾰ́κῃ tēî nắkēi |
τοῖν νᾰ́καιν toîn nắkain |
ταῖς νᾰ́καις taîs nắkais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν νᾰ́κην tḕn nắkēn |
τὼ νᾰ́κᾱ tṑ nắkā |
τᾱ̀ς νᾰ́κᾱς tā̀s nắkās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νᾰ́κη nắkē |
νᾰ́κᾱ nắkā |
νᾰ́και nắkai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κατωνάκη (katōnákē)
- νακοδέψης (nakodépsēs)
- νακύριον (nakúrion)
Descendants
Perhaps through Doric Greek *νάκα (*náka):
Further reading
- “νάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νάκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νάκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νάκη 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) “νάκη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 994