ὄγχνη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὄχνη (ókhnē)

Etymology

Hypothetically connected with ἔγχος (énkhos, “spear”) if this lance was originally made of pear wood. Furnée connects the word with κόγχη (kónkhē, “mussel”) and thinks that the noun is from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /óŋ.kʰnɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈoŋ.kʰne̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈoŋ.xni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈoŋ.xni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈoŋ.xni/

Noun

ὄγχνη • (ónkhnē) f (genitive ὄγχνης); first declension

pear tree (Pyrus communis)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὄγχνη; τῆς ὄγχνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄγχνη hē ónkhnē	τὼ ὄγχνᾱ tṑ ónkhnā	αἱ ὄγχναι hai ónkhnai
Genitive	τῆς ὄγχνης tês ónkhnēs	τοῖν ὄγχναιν toîn ónkhnain	τῶν ὀγχνῶν tôn onkhnôn
Dative	τῇ ὄγχνῃ têi ónkhnēi	τοῖν ὄγχναιν toîn ónkhnain	ταῖς ὄγχναις taîs ónkhnais
Accusative	τὴν ὄγχνην tḕn ónkhnēn	τὼ ὄγχνᾱ tṑ ónkhnā	τᾱ̀ς ὄγχνᾱς tā̀s ónkhnās
Vocative	ὄγχνη ónkhnē	ὄγχνᾱ ónkhnā	ὄγχναι ónkhnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

ἄπιος (ápios)
ἄχερδος (ákherdos)

References

“ὄγχνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὄγχνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὄγχνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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
Blažek, Václav (2014) “Etymologizing ‘unetymologizable’ Greek dendronyms”, in Graeco-Latina Brunensia‎, volume 19, number 1, pages 45–46