ἱμονιά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from unattested *ἱμων (*himōn), which would match Proto-Germanic *sīmô (“rope”), and also Sanskrit सीमन् (sīman, “border, frontier, margin”), all from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂i-men (“to tie, bind”). Compare ἱμάς (himás), ἱμάω (himáō), ἱμάσθλη (himásthlē) and ἱμαῖος (himaîos).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hiː.mo.ni.ǎː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)i.mo.niˈa/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.mo.niˈa/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.mo.niˈa/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.mo.niˈa/

Noun

ἱ̄μονῐᾱ́ • (hīmonĭā́) f (genitive ἱ̄μονῐᾶς); first declension

well-rope

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ῑ̔μονῐᾱ́; τῆς ῑ̔μονῐᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῑ̔μονῐᾱ́ hē hīmonĭā́	τὼ ῑ̔μονῐᾱ́ tṑ hīmonĭā́	αἱ ῑ̔μονῐαί hai hīmonĭaí
Genitive	τῆς ῑ̔μονῐᾶς tês hīmonĭâs	τοῖν ῑ̔μονῐαῖν toîn hīmonĭaîn	τῶν ῑ̔μονῐῶν tôn hīmonĭôn
Dative	τῇ ῑ̔μονῐᾷ tēî hīmonĭāî	τοῖν ῑ̔μονῐαῖν toîn hīmonĭaîn	ταῖς ῑ̔μονῐαῖς taîs hīmonĭaîs
Accusative	τὴν ῑ̔μονῐᾱ́ν tḕn hīmonĭā́n	τὼ ῑ̔μονῐᾱ́ tṑ hīmonĭā́	τᾱ̀ς ῑ̔μονῐᾱ́ς tā̀s hīmonĭā́s
Vocative	ῑ̔μονῐᾱ́ hīmonĭā́	ῑ̔μονῐᾱ́ hīmonĭā́	ῑ̔μονῐαί hīmonĭaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

ἱμονιοστρόφος (himoniostróphos)

References

“ἱμονιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἱμονιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἱμονιά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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