νίννη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same onomatopoeic origin of νόννος (nónnos, “father”), νάννας (nánnas, “uncle”) and νέννος (nénnos, “uncle”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /nín.nɛː/ → /ˈnin.ni/ → /ˈni.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nín.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈnin.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈnin.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈnin.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈni.ni/

Noun

νῐ́ννη • (nínnē) f (genitive νῐ́ννης); first declension

1. grandmother or mother-in-law

Inflection

First declension of ἡ νῐ́ννη; τῆς νῐ́ννης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ νῐ́ννη hē nínnē	τὼ νῐ́ννᾱ tṑ nínnā	αἱ νῐ́νναι hai nínnai
Genitive	τῆς νῐ́ννης tês nínnēs	τοῖν νῐ́νναιν toîn nínnain	τῶν νῐννῶν tôn ninnôn
Dative	τῇ νῐ́ννῃ têi nínnēi	τοῖν νῐ́νναιν toîn nínnain	ταῖς νῐ́νναις taîs nínnais
Accusative	τὴν νῐ́ννην tḕn nínnēn	τὼ νῐ́ννᾱ tṑ nínnā	τᾱ̀ς νῐ́ννᾱς tā̀s nínnās
Vocative	νῐ́ννη nínnē	νῐ́ννᾱ nínnā	νῐ́νναι nínnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “νίννη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νίννη 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