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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the -ήν suffix renders a Pre-Greek source tentatively reconstructed as *ankwēn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /au̯.kʰɛ̌ːn/ → /aɸˈçin/ → /afˈçin/
Noun
αὐχήν • (aukhḗn) m (genitive αὐχένος); third declension
- neck
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References
Further reading
- “αὐχήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αὐχήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “αὐχήν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- αὐχήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὐχήν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- αὐχήν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “αὐχήν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.