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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Has been connected with Old English næsc (“soft leather; deer skin”) but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ná.kɛː/ → /ˈna.ci/ → /ˈna.ci/
Noun
νᾰ́κη • (nákē) f (genitive νᾰ́κης); first declension
- woolen skin, fleece
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Further reading
- “νάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νάκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νάκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νάκη 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) “νάκη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 994