τυκάνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τῠ́κος (túkos, “mason's hammer”) +‎ -ᾰ́νη (-ánē, instrument noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ty.ká.nɛː/ → /tyˈka.ni/ → /tiˈka.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ty.ká.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tyˈka.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tyˈka.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tyˈka.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈka.ni/

Noun

τῠκᾰ́νη • (tukánē) f (genitive τῠκᾰ́νης); first declension

1. kind of threshing instrument

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τῠκᾰ́νη; τῆς τῠκᾰ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τῠκᾰ́νη hē tukánē	τὼ τῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ tukánā	αἱ τῠκᾰ́ναι hai tukánai
Genitive	τῆς τῠκᾰ́νης tês tukánēs	τοῖν τῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn tukánain	τῶν τῠκᾰνῶν tôn tukanôn
Dative	τῇ τῠκᾰ́νῃ têi tukánēi	τοῖν τῠκᾰ́ναιν toîn tukánain	ταῖς τῠκᾰ́ναις taîs tukánais
Accusative	τὴν τῠκᾰ́νην tḕn tukánēn	τὼ τῠκᾰ́νᾱ tṑ tukánā	τᾱ̀ς τῠκᾰ́νᾱς tā̀s tukánās
Vocative	τῠκᾰ́νη tukánē	τῠκᾰ́νᾱ tukánā	τῠκᾰ́ναι tukánai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: دوگن (düğen, düven)
  • Turkish: düven

Further reading

• “τυκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τυκάνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette