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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χέρνιψ (khérnips, “water for ritual handwashing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰér.ni.bon/ → /ˈçer.ni.βon/ → /ˈçer.ni.von/
Noun
χέρνῐβον • (khérnibon) n (genitive χερνίβου); second declension
- washbasin (for ritual handwashing)
Declension
Descendants
- → Arabic: كِرْنِيب (kirnīb, “washbasin”)
Further reading
- “χέρνιβον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χέρνιβον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χέρνιβον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χέρνιβον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press