χλεύη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”), the same root of Proto-Slavic *glumiti (“to mock, to joke”) and Proto-Germanic *glaumaz (“jubilation”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

χλεύη • (khleúē) f (genitive χλεύης); first declension

  1. joke, jest

Inflection

First declension of ἡ χλεύη; τῆς χλεύης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ χλεύη
hē khleúē 		τὼ χλεύᾱ
tṑ khleúā 		αἱ χλεῦαι
hai khleûai
Genitive τῆς χλεύης
tês khleúēs 		τοῖν χλεύαιν
toîn khleúain 		τῶν χλευῶν
tôn khleuôn
Dative τῇ χλεύῃ
tēî khleúēi 		τοῖν χλεύαιν
toîn khleúain 		ταῖς χλεύαις
taîs khleúais
Accusative τὴν χλεύην
tḕn khleúēn 		τὼ χλεύᾱ
tṑ khleúā 		τᾱ̀ς χλεύᾱς
tā̀s khleúās
Vocative χλεύη
khleúē 		χλεύᾱ
khleúā 		χλεῦαι
khleûai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χλεύη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1636-7

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