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Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Particle
μᾰ́ • (má)
- by
- Μὰ τὸν Δία ― Mà tòn Día ― By Zeus
- Μὰ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ― Mà tḕn Athēnân ― By Athena
References
- “μά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μά”, 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.