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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kʰiṓn, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéyōm. Cognate with χεῖμα (kheîma, “snow”) and χειμών (kheimṓn, “winter”), Latin hiems, Welsh gaeaf, Sanskrit हिम (himá), Hittite 𒄀𒈠𒀭 (giman), Armenian ձմեռ (jmeṙ), Proto-Slavic *zima, Albanian dimër.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰi.ɔ̌ːn/ → /çiˈon/ → /çiˈon/
Noun
χῐών • (khiṓn) f (genitive χῐόνος); third declension
- snow
- melted snow, ice water
Usage notes
Sometimes with long ῑ (ī) for the sake of meter.
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Further reading
- “χιών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χιών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χιών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χιών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χιών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χιών”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5510 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.