οὖνον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Mayer, it was borrowed from Egyptian wny. Compare ἐριούνης (erioúnēs, “epithet of Hermes”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ôː.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈu.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈu.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈu.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈu.non/
Noun
οὖνον • (oûnon)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: Cypriot word for δρόμον (drómon, “course, race”).
Further reading
- οὖνον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) , “οὖνον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1127
- Hesychius' Lexicon: ο