κόμμι
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kóm.mi/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkom.mi/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkom.mi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkom.mi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.mi/
Noun
κόμμῐ • (kómmi) n (genitive κόμμεως); third declension
- gum, obtained from babul (Vachellia nilotica)
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κόμμῐ tò kómmi |
τὼ κόμμει tṑ kómmei |
τᾰ̀ κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ tà kómmē / kómmea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κόμμεως toû kómmeōs |
τοῖν κομμέοιν toîn komméoin |
τῶν κόμμεων tôn kómmeōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κόμμει tôi kómmei |
τοῖν κομμέοιν toîn komméoin |
τοῖς κόμμεσῐ / κόμμεσῐν toîs kómmesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κόμμῐ tò kómmi |
τὼ κόμμει tṑ kómmei |
τᾰ̀ κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ tà kómmē / kómmea | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόμμῐ kómmi |
κόμμει kómmei |
κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ kómmē / kómmea | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κομμίδιον (kommídion)
- κομμίζω (kommízō)
- κομμιώδης (kommiṓdēs)
Descendants
- → Aramaic: (“gum particularly of acacia”)
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: קוֹמָּא (qommā), קוֹמּוֹס (qommōs)
- Classical Syriac: ܩܘܡܐ (qommā), ܩܡܘܣ (qammūs), ܩܡܘܨ (qammūṣ), ܩܡܘܙ (qammūz)
- → Amharic: ኮማ (koma, “a kind of large Ferula resembling Ferula communis subsp. communis from the leaves of which also cake is baken”).
- → Persian: کما (komâ, kamâ, “various Ferula and the gum thereof”)
- → Middle Hebrew: קוֹמּוֹס (qommōs)
- → Latin: cummis, gummis, commis, cummi, gummi, commi (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “κόμμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόμμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόμμι 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
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”),
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qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).
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