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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly related to the Anatolian name Masa, itself related to Μυσία (Musía, “Mysia”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mǎi̯.ɔːn/ → /ˈmɛ.on/ → /ˈme.on/
Noun
Μαίων • (Maíōn) m (genitive Μαίονος); third declension
- an inhabitant of Maeonia or Lydia; one of the Maeones; a Maeonian
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References
- “Μαίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
- Μαίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire, p. 438