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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *aná. Beekes' derivation from *h₂en- doesn't explain the second syllable. LIPP reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *áno (“up, over, along”). For /o/ > /a/ a vowel harmony is posited, cf. παρά (pará), κατά (katá), ἄντα (ánta), μάλα (mála), σάφα (sápha), θαμά (thamá). For the stress shift, an analogy with other prepositions. Cognates include Avestan 𐬀𐬥𐬀 (ana), Latin an- (“up”) in an-hēlō (“to gasp”), an-testor (“to call up as a witness”), and English on.
The genitive is an innovated Greek associative. The dative is from the PIE locative. The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ná/ → /aˈna/ → /aˈna/
Preposition
ᾰ̓νᾰ́ • (aná) (governs the genitive, dative, and accusative)
- (rare) on board
- (of location) on, upon
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- up, upwards, along
- in sequence, each, throughout
- up to
- (of amounts) at a rate, speed, or price of, for
- (of time) translatable with an adverbial noun phrase
- ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ἡμέραν ― anà pâsan hēméran ― every day
- ἀνὰ πᾶν ἔτος ― anà pân étos ― every year
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Ἀνά”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Dunkel, George E. (2014) Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (Indogermanische Bibliothek. 2. Reihe: Wörterbücher) (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, →ISBN, pages 50-1
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “1. an-”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 43
Further reading
- “ἀνά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀνά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀνά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀνά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀνά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀνά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀνά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G303 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀνά in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.