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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛː.i.ɔ̌ːn/ → /i.iˈon/ → /i.iˈon/
Noun
ἠϊών • (ēïṓn) f (genitive ἠϊόνος); third declension
- shore, beach, sea-bank
- Synonym: αἰγιαλός (aigialós)
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἠϊών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἠϊών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἠϊών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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