μυῖα

See also: μυία and Μυία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

μῦα (mûa) – Attic

Etymology

From 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

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mŷː.a/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.a/

Noun

μυῖᾰ • (muîa) f (genitive μυίᾱς); first declension

a fly (the insect)

Declension

First declension of ἡ μυῖᾰ; τῆς μυίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

μυιοσόβος (muiosóbos)

Descendants

English: myiasis
Greek: μύγα (mýga)
Mariupol Greek: мя́на (mjána)
Pontic Greek: μυία (myía), μυίγι̮α (myígi̮a), μυιμυίγι̮α (myimyígi̮a)
- → Turkish: miya

References

“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 [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fly idem, page 331.