χιών
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kʰiṓn, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéyōm. Cognate with χεῖμα (kheîma, “snow”) and χειμών (kheimṓn, “winter”), Latin hiems, Welsh gaeaf, Sanskrit हिम (himá), Hittite 𒄀𒈠𒀭 (giman), Armenian ձմեռ (jmeṙ), Proto-Slavic *zima, Albanian dimër.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰi.ɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰiˈon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /çiˈon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /çiˈon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /çiˈon/
Usage notes
Sometimes with long ῑ (ī) for the sake of meter.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ χῐών hē khiṓn |
τὼ χῐόνε tṑ khióne |
αἱ χῐόνες hai khiónes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς χῐόνος tês khiónos |
τοῖν χῐόνοιν toîn khiónoin |
τῶν χῐόνων tôn khiónōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ χῐόνῐ têi khióni |
τοῖν χῐόνοιν toîn khiónoin |
ταῖς χῐόσῐ / χῐόσῐν taîs khiósi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν χῐόνᾰ tḕn khióna |
τὼ χῐόνε tṑ khióne |
τᾱ̀ς χῐόνᾰς tā̀s khiónas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χῐών khiṓn |
χῐόνε khióne |
χῐόνες khiónes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- χῐόνῐνος (khióninos)
Descendants
- → Coptic: ⲭⲓⲱⲛ (khiōn)
- ⇒ Koine Greek: χιόνιον (khiónion)
- → New Latin: Chionanthus
Further reading
- “χιών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χιών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χιών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χιών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χιών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χιών”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5510 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- snow idem, page 789.
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