τυκάνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τῠ́κος (tŭ́kos, “mason's hammer”) + -ᾰ́νη (-ắnē, instrument noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ty.ká.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tyˈka.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tyˈka.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tyˈka.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tiˈka.ni/
Noun
τῠκᾰ́νη • (tŭkắnē) f (genitive τῠκᾰ́νης); first declension
- kind of threshing instrument
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ τῠκᾰ́νη hē tŭkắnē |
τὼ τῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ tŭkắnā |
αἱ τῠκᾰ́ναι hai tŭkắnai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς τῠκᾰ́νης tês tŭkắnēs |
τοῖν τῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn tŭkắnain |
τῶν τῠκᾰνῶν tôn tŭkănôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ τῠκᾰ́νῃ tēî tŭkắnēi |
τοῖν τῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn tŭkắnain |
ταῖς τῠκᾰ́ναις taîs tŭkắnais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν τῠκᾰ́νην tḕn tŭkắnēn |
τὼ τῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ tŭkắnā |
τᾱ̀ς τῠκᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s tŭkắnās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τῠκᾰ́νη tŭkắnē |
τῠκᾰ́νᾱ tŭkắnā |
τῠκᾰ́ναι tŭkắnai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “τυκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τυκάνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette