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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Matches Classical Syriac ܒܽܘܢܳܐ (būnā, “barley soaked in water”).
The origin can be a technical term restricted from the well-known Middle Iranian word for “base, grounds” found as Classical Persian بن (bun) and others, securely reconstructed Proto-Iranian *buHnáh, Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰudʰnás.
Pronunciation
Noun
βύνη • (búnē) f (genitive βύνης); first declension
- malt for brewing
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “βύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βύνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βύνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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, page 248