ἀνία

See also: ανία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἀνίη (aníē) — Ionic
ὀνία (onía) — Aeolic

Etymology

Unknown. The connection with Sanskrit अमीव (amīva, “pain, grief”) requires an unwarranted dissimilation m-ṷ > n-ṷ and should be rejected. As remarked by Nikolaev, derivation from *h₂eys- (“to search”) is semantically not very convincing; he proposed instead to connect the root *h₂eis(h₂) (“to refresh”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.nǐː.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈni.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈni.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈni.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈni.a/

Noun

ἀνῑ́ᾱ • (anī́ā) f (genitive ἀνῑ́ᾱς); first declension

grief, sorrow, distress, trouble

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀνῑ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀνῑ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀνῑ́ᾱ hē anī́ā	τὼ ἀνῑ́ᾱ tṑ anī́ā	αἱ ἀνῖαι hai anîai
Genitive	τῆς ἀνῑ́ᾱς tês anī́ās	τοῖν ἀνῑ́αιν toîn anī́ain	τῶν ἀνῑῶν tôn anīôn
Dative	τῇ ἀνῑ́ᾳ têi anī́āi	τοῖν ἀνῑ́αιν toîn anī́ain	ταῖς ἀνῑ́αις taîs anī́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἀνῑ́ᾱν tḕn anī́ān	τὼ ἀνῑ́ᾱ tṑ anī́ā	τᾱ̀ς ἀνῑ́ᾱς tā̀s anī́ās
Vocative	ἀνῑ́ᾱ anī́ā	ἀνῑ́ᾱ anī́ā	ἀνῖαι anîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀνιάζω (aniázō)
ἀνιαρός (aniarós)
ἀνιάω (aniáō)

Descendants

Greek: ανία (anía)

References

“ἀνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἀνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἀνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀνία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
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