εὐνή

See also: ευνή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Compare Old Irish huom, uom, Avestan 𐬎𐬥𐬁‎ (unā), and Latin exuō, venus.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

εὐνή • (eunḗ) f (genitive εὐνῆς); first declension

  1. bed
  2. bedding
  3. abode, layer
  4. marriage bed
  5. grave
  6. (in the plural) stones thrown from a ship and used as anchors

Inflection
First declension of ἡ εὐνή; τῆς εὐνῆς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ εὐνή
hē eunḗ		 τὼ εὐνᾱ́
tṑ eunā́		 αἱ εὐναί
hai eunaí
Genitive τῆς εὐνῆς
tês eunês		 τοῖν εὐναῖν
toîn eunaîn		 τῶν εὐνῶν / εὐνῆφι
tôn eunôn / eunêphi
Dative τῇ εὐνῇ
têi eunêi		 τοῖν εὐναῖν
toîn eunaîn		 ταῖς εὐναῖς
taîs eunaîs
Accusative τὴν εὐνήν
tḕn eunḗn		 τὼ εὐνᾱ́
tṑ eunā́		 τᾱ̀ς εὐνᾱ́ς
tā̀s eunā́s
Vocative εὐνή
eunḗ		 εὐνᾱ́
eunā́		 εὐναί
eunaí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Epic also has εὐνῆφι(ν) for the genitive singular and plural.

Descendants

Further reading
  • εὐνή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • εὐνή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • εὐνή in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • εὐνή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • εὐνή 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.
  • 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
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