κόμμι
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kóm.mi/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkom.mi/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkom.mi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkom.mi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.mi/
Noun
κόμμῐ • (kómmĭ) n (genitive κόμμεως); third declension
- gum, obtained from babul (Vachellia nilotica)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | τὸ κόμμῐ tò kómmĭ |
τὼ κόμμει tṑ kómmei |
τᾰ̀ κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ tằ kómmē / kómmeă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κόμμεως toû kómmeōs |
τοῖν κομμέοιν toîn komméoin |
τῶν κόμμεων tôn kómmeōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κόμμει tôi kómmei |
τοῖν κομμέοιν toîn komméoin |
τοῖς κόμμεσῐ / κόμμεσῐν toîs kómmesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κόμμῐ tò kómmĭ |
τὼ κόμμει tṑ kómmei |
τᾰ̀ κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ tằ kómmē / kómmeă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κόμμῐ kómmĭ |
κόμμει kómmei |
κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ kómmē / kómmeă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
- → Aramaic: (“gum particularly of acacia”)
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: קוֹמָּא (qommā), קוֹמּוֹס (qommōs)
- Classical Syriac: ܩܘܡܐ (qommā), ܩܡܘܣ (qammūs), ܩܡܘܨ (qammūṣ), ܩܡܘܙ (qammūz)
- → Amharic: ኮማ (koma, “a kind of large Ferula resembling Ferula communis subsp. communis from the leaves of which also cake is baken”).
- → Persian: کما (komâ, kamâ, “various Ferula and the gum thereof”)
- → Middle Hebrew: קוֹמּוֹס (qommōs)
- → Latin: cummis, gummis, commis, cummi, gummi, commi (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόμμι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 744
Further reading
- “κόμμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόμμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόμμι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κόμμι”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”),
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qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).
Noun
κόμμι • (kómmi) n (plural κόμμεα)