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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. The former connection with ἀμύνω (amúnō, “to defend”) is impossible because the prothetic vowel developed from a laryngeal, provided that the latter word is Indo-European.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /my̌ː.nɛː/ → /ˈmy.ni/ → /ˈmi.ni/
Noun
μῡ́νη • (mū́nē) f (genitive μῡ́νης); first declension
- excuse, pretence, pretext
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “μύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μύνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μύνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μύνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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