κάννα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κᾰ́ννη (kánnē) – Ionic
Etymology
Borrowed from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”) (whence Mycenaean Greek 𐀒𐀜𐀛𐀠 (ko-no-ni-pi /konōni-pʰi/)), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). There are indications that it may have come through Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kán.naː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.na/
Noun
κᾰ́ννᾱ • (kánnā) f (genitive κᾰ́ννης); first declension
- giant reed (Arundo donax)
- reed mat
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κᾰ́ννᾱ; τῆς κᾰ́ννης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κᾰ́ννᾱ hē kánnā | τὼ κᾰ́ννᾱ tṑ kánnā | αἱ κᾰ́νναι hai kánnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κᾰ́ννης tês kánnēs | τοῖν κᾰ́νναιν toîn kánnain | τῶν κᾰννῶν tôn kannôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κᾰ́ννῃ têi kánnēi | τοῖν κᾰ́νναιν toîn kánnain | ταῖς κᾰ́νναις taîs kánnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κᾰ́ννᾱν tḕn kánnān | τὼ κᾰ́ννᾱ tṑ kánnā | τᾱ̀ς κᾰ́ννᾱς tā̀s kánnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́ννᾱ kánnā | κᾰ́ννᾱ kánnā | κᾰ́νναι kánnai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: κάννη (kánni)
- → Latin: canna (see there for further descendants)
References
- κάννα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάννα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάννα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κάννα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 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