καυνάκης
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- γαυνάκης (gaunákēs)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Persian *gaunaka (literally “hairy”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kau̯.ná.kɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kawˈna.ke̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈβna.cis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈvna.cis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈvna.cis/
Noun
καυνᾰ́κης • (kaunákēs) m (genitive καυνᾰ́κου); first declension
- thick cloak said to be of Persian or Babylonian make
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ καυνᾰ́κης ho kaunákēs |
τὼ καυνᾰ́κᾱ tṑ kaunákā |
οἱ καυνᾰ́και hoi kaunákai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ καυνᾰ́κου toû kaunákou |
τοῖν καυνᾰ́καιν toîn kaunákain |
τῶν καυνᾰκῶν tôn kaunakôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ καυνᾰ́κῃ tôi kaunákēi |
τοῖν καυνᾰ́καιν toîn kaunákain |
τοῖς καυνᾰ́καις toîs kaunákais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν καυνᾰ́κην tòn kaunákēn |
τὼ καυνᾰ́κᾱ tṑ kaunákā |
τοὺς καυνᾰ́κᾱς toùs kaunákās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | καυνᾰ́κη kaunákē |
καυνᾰ́κᾱ kaunákā |
καυνᾰ́και kaunákai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- καυνάκιον (kaunákion)
Further reading
- “καυνάκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- καυνάκης 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
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*gaunaka-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 105
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.640. *Gaunaka-”, in Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 188