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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *nāťťa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɛ̂ːt.ta/ → /ˈnit.ta/ → /ˈni.ta/
Noun
νῆττᾰ • (nêtta) f (genitive νήττης); first declension
- a duck
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References
- “νῆττα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νῆττα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νῆττα 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.