Πηνειός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“mire, bog”).[1] Cognate with Latin Pannonia, Old Prussian pannean (“bog”), Middle Irish en (“water”), Dutch veen, Old English fenn (English fen).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɛː.neː.ós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe̝.niˈos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pi.niˈos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pi.niˈos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.niˈos/

Proper noun

Πηνειός • (Pēneiós) m (genitive Πηνειοῦ); second declension

(Greek mythology) Peneus, a river god
the river Peneus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Πηνειός; τοῦ Πηνειοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πηνειός ho Pēneiós
Genitive	τοῦ Πηνειοῦ toû Pēneioû
Dative	τῷ Πηνειῷ tôi Pēneiôi
Accusative	τὸν Πηνειόν tòn Pēneión
Vocative	Πηνειέ Pēneié
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: Πηνειός (Pineiós)
Latin: Pēnēus

References

Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127

“Πηνειός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
Πηνειός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021

[1] Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127