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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Has been connected with Ancient Greek σάττω (sáttō, “to stuff, to press”) but this is semantically insufficient. Because of the Cypriot byform and the connection with σάγουρον (ságouron, “net”), Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin.
Salonen and Szemerényi derive from Akkadian 𒅆𒆥𒉡 (ši-kin-nu /šikinnu/, “a vessel for oils, ointments, and wine; a large fishing net”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.ɡɛ̌ː.nɛː/ → /saˈʝi.ni/ → /saˈʝi.ni/
Noun
σᾰγήνη • (sagḗnē) f (genitive σᾰγήνης); first declension
- large dragnet, seine
- hunting net
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Latin: sagēna (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “σαγήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σαγήνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- Szemerényi, Oswald (1974) “The origins of the Greek lexicon: Ex Oriente Lux”, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 94, →DOI, page 149