μύραινα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σμύραινα (smúraina)
Etymology
Traditionally connected with σμύρις (smúris, “emery powder”) and with words for 'grease, fat', like Proto-Germanic *smerwą (“grease”), which would fit the eel as a fat creature. However, this does not explain the long "ῡ". According to Beekes, names of fish are often Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "pregrc" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. and the suffix -αινᾰ (-aina) is well-known in such words.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /my̌ː.rai̯.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.rɛ.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.rɛ.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.re.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.re.na/
Noun
μῡ́ραινα • (mū́raina) f (genitive μῡραίνης); first declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μῡ́ραινᾰ hē mū́raina |
τὼ μῡραίνᾱ tṑ mūraínā |
αἱ μῡ́ραιναι hai mū́rainai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μῡραίνης tês mūraínēs |
τοῖν μῡραίναιν toîn mūraínain |
τῶν μῡραινῶν tôn mūrainôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μῡραίνῃ têi mūraínēi |
τοῖν μῡραίναιν toîn mūraínain |
ταῖς μῡραίναις taîs mūraínais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μῡ́ραινᾰν tḕn mū́rainan |
τὼ μῡραίνᾱ tṑ mūraínā |
τᾱ̀ς μῡραίνᾱς tā̀s mūraínās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῡ́ραινᾰ mū́raina |
μῡραίνᾱ mūraínā |
μῡ́ραιναι mū́rainai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: murēna
References
- “μύραινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μύραινα 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