ἀρήν

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • ϝᾰρήν (warḗn) – Cretan

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *warḗn, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥h₁ḗn (“lamb”). Cognates include Latin vervēx (“wether”), Sanskrit उरण (úraṇa) and Old Armenian գառն (gaṙn).[1]

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ᾰ̓ρήν • (arḗn) m or f (genitive ᾰ̓ρνός); third declension

  1. a lamb
  2. a sheep, whether ram or ewe
  3. (in the plural) shunted ears of wheat

Inflection

The nominative is only found in early inscriptions, the inflected forms being used in later Greek for ἀμνός (amnós).

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ ᾰ̓ρήν; τοῦ, τῆς ᾰ̓ρνός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ, ἡ ᾰ̓ρήν
ho, hē arḗn		 τὼ ᾰ̓ρνέ
tṑ arné		 οἱ, αἱ ᾰ̓ρνές
hoi, hai arnés
Genitive τοῦ, τῆς ᾰ̓ρνός
toû, tês arnós		 τοῖν ᾰ̓ρνοίν
toîn arnoín		 τῶν ᾰ̓ρνών
tôn arnṓn
Dative τῷ, τῇ ᾰ̓ρνῐ́
tôi, têi arní		 τοῖν ᾰ̓ρνοίν
toîn arnoín		 τοῖς, ταῖς ᾰ̓ρνᾰ́σῐ / ᾰ̓ρνᾰ́σῐν
toîs, taîs arnási(n)
Accusative τὸν, τὴν ᾰ̓ρνᾰ́
tòn, tḕn arná		 τὼ ᾰ̓ρνέ
tṑ arné		 τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓ρνᾰ́ς
toùs, tā̀s arnás
Vocative ᾰ̓ρήν
arḗn		 ᾰ̓ρνέ
arné		 ᾰ̓ρνές
arnés
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • ἀρνακίς (arnakís)
  • ἄρνειος (árneios)
  • ἀρνειός (arneiós)
  • ἀρνίον (arníon)
  • πολύρρην (polúrrhēn)
  • ῥήν (rhḗn)

References
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἀρήν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 129

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