μνᾶ

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Aramaic 𐡌𐡍𐡄 (mnh), from Akkadian 𒈠𒉡𒌑 (manû).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

μνᾶ • (mnâ) f (genitive μνᾶς); first declension

  1. sum of money equivalent to a hundred drachmas
  2. weight equivalent to a hundred drachmas

Declension

First declension of ἡ μνᾶ; τῆς μνᾶς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ μνᾶ
hē mnâ 		τὼ μνᾶ
tṑ mnâ 		αἱ μναῖ
hai mnaî
Genitive τῆς μνᾶς
tês mnâs 		τοῖν μναῖν
toîn mnaîn 		τῶν μνῶν
tôn mnôn
Dative τῇ μνᾷ
têi mnâi 		τοῖν μναῖν
toîn mnaîn 		ταῖς μναῖς
taîs mnaîs
Accusative τὴν μνᾶν
tḕn mnân 		τὼ μνᾶ
tṑ mnâ 		τᾱ̀ς μνᾶς
tā̀s mnâs
Vocative μνᾶ
mnâ 		μνᾶ
mnâ 		μναῖ
mnaî
Notes:

Descendants

  • → Latin: mina
  • → Old Georgian: მნაჲ (mnay)

Further reading

  • “μνᾶ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “μνᾶ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • μνᾶ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Hoftijzer, J, Jongeling, K. (1995) Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten; 21), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, page 658a
  • Kaufman, Stephen A. (1974) The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Assyriological Studies; 19)‎, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 69
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