νῆσος

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See also: νήσος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain. Has traditionally been connected with νήχω (nḗkhō, “I swim”) from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to flow, to swim”). If its meaning “island” has developed from a more original meaning “headland, cape”, it may be, like Proto-Germanic *nasją (“foothill; headland, cape”) and Bulgarian нос (nos, “nose; cape, promontory”), a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s (“nose”); in more landsman environments, compare the developments of Minaean 𐩱𐩬𐩰 (ʾnf, “wall of a city”) from “nose” and Arabic جَزِيرَة (jazīra, “island”) apparently from “bridge”. But in that case, the origin of -s-, which is not usually preserved in Greek, remains to be explained, possibly requiring a borrowing from another Indo-European language (Beekes and Furnée: Pre-Greek).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

νῆσος • (nêsos) f (genitive νήσου); second declension

  1. island

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ νῆσος; τῆς νήσου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ νῆσος
hē nêsos 		τὼ νήσω
tṑ nḗsō 		αἱ νῆσοι
hai nêsoi
Genitive τῆς νήσου
tês nḗsou 		τοῖν νήσοιν
toîn nḗsoin 		τῶν νήσων
tôn nḗsōn
Dative τῇ νήσῳ
têi nḗsōi 		τοῖν νήσοιν
toîn nḗsoin 		ταῖς νήσοις
taîs nḗsois
Accusative τὴν νῆσον
tḕn nêson 		τὼ νήσω
tṑ nḗsō 		τᾱ̀ς νήσους
tā̀s nḗsous
Vocative νῆσε
nêse 		νήσω
nḗsō 		νῆσοι
nêsoi
Notes:
Second declension of ἡ νῆσος; τῆς νήσου (Ionic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ νῆσος
hē nêsos 		τὼ νήσω
tṑ nḗsō 		αἱ νῆσοι
hai nêsoi
Genitive τῆς νήσου
tês nḗsou 		τοῖν νήσοιν
toîn nḗsoin 		τῶν νήσων
tôn nḗsōn
Dative τῇ νήσῳ
têi nḗsōi 		τοῖν νήσοιν
toîn nḗsoin 		τῇσῐ / τῇσῐν νήσοισῐ / νήσοισῐν / νήσοις
têisi(n) nḗsoisi(n) / nḗsois
Accusative τὴν νῆσον
tḕn nêson 		τὼ νήσω
tṑ nḗsō 		τᾱ̀ς νήσους
tā̀s nḗsous
Vocative νῆσε
nêse 		νήσω
nḗsō 		νῆσοι
nêsoi
Notes:
  • Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • “νῆσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “νῆσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “νῆσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • νῆσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • νῆσος 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, page 1018
  • Furnée, Edzard Johan (1972) Die wichtigsten konsonantischen Erscheinungen des Vorgriechischen (Janua linguarum. Series practica; 150) (in German), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 387
  • G3520 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 460
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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