ἐμπίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Popularly derived from ἐμπίνω (empínō, “to drink (blood)”).[1] Pokorny connects Proto-West Germanic *imbī (“bee”),[2] and in theory both can be derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁empí- (“gnat, biting insect”), though Kroonen rejects this comparison[3] and Mallory and Adams call it “not universally accepted.”[4] On the other hand, the relationship could be regarded as evidence of a widespread European substrate word,[5] especially in view of Latin apis (“bee”).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ἐμπῐ́ς • (empĭ́s) f (genitive ἐμπῐ́δος); third declension

  1. mosquito, gnat
  2. larva of the oestrus

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἐμπῐ́ς; τῆς ἐμπῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ ἐμπῐ́ς
hē empĭ́s 		τὼ ἐμπῐ́δε
tṑ empĭ́de 		αἱ ἐμπῐ́δες
hai empĭ́des
Genitive τῆς ἐμπῐ́δος
tês empĭ́dos 		τοῖν ἐμπῐ́δοιν
toîn empĭ́doin 		τῶν ἐμπῐ́δων
tôn empĭ́dōn
Dative τῇ ἐμπῐ́δῐ
tēî empĭ́dĭ 		τοῖν ἐμπῐ́δοιν
toîn empĭ́doin 		ταῖς ἐμπῐ́σῐ / ἐμπῐ́σῐν
taîs empĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative τὴν ἐμπῐ́δᾰ
tḕn empĭ́dă 		τὼ ἐμπῐ́δε
tṑ empĭ́de 		τᾱ̀ς ἐμπῐ́δᾰς
tā̀s empĭ́dăs
Vocative ἐμπῐ́ς
empĭ́s 		ἐμπῐ́δε
empĭ́de 		ἐμπῐ́δες
empĭ́des
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

  • → Translingual: Empis

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐμπίς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 418
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “embhi-, empi-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 311
  3. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*embja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 117
  4. ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 312
  5. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “imme”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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