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Ancient Greek
Etymology
By Grassmann's law from Proto-Hellenic *honkʷʰā́, from Proto-Indo-European *songʷʰ-éh₂, from *sengʷʰ-. Cognate with English song.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /om.pʰɛ̌ː/ → /omˈɸi/ → /omˈfi/
Noun
ὀμφή • (omphḗ) f (genitive ὀμφῆς); first declension
- (poetic) voice, oracle
Inflection
References
- “ὀμφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀμφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὀμφή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀμφή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὀμφή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.