μυῖα
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *mu-, *mew-, whence also Latin musca, Old Church Slavonic моуха (muxa), Old Armenian մուն (mun), Albanian mizë, Latvian muša, Old English mycg (English midge).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mŷː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.a/
Noun
editμυῖᾰ • (muîa) f (genitive μυίᾱς); first declension
- a fly (the insect)
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μυῖᾰ hē muîa |
τὼ μυίᾱ tṑ muíā |
αἱ μυῖαι hai muîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μυίᾱς tês muíās |
τοῖν μυίαιν toîn muíain |
τῶν μυιῶν tôn muiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μυίᾳ têi muíāi |
τοῖν μυίαιν toîn muíain |
ταῖς μυίαις taîs muíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μυῖᾰν tḕn muîan |
τὼ μυίᾱ tṑ muíā |
τᾱ̀ς μυίᾱς tā̀s muíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μυῖᾰ muîa |
μυίᾱ muíā |
μυῖαι muîai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- μυιοσόβος (muiosóbos)
Descendants
edit- English: myiasis
- Greek: μύγα (mýga)
- Mariupol Greek: мя́на (mjána)
- Pontic Greek: μυία (myía), μυίγι̮α (myígi̮a), μυιμυίγι̮α (myimyígi̮a)
- → Turkish: miya
References
edit- “μυῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μυῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μυῖα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μυῖα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μυῖα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- μυῖα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fly idem, page 331.
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
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