σκαμνίον

σκαμνίον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σκαμνίν (skamnín), σκαμνί (skamní), σκάμνον (skámnon)

Etymology

Diminutive of Koine Greek σκάμνον (skámnon), borrowed from Latin scamnum.

Noun

σκαμνίον • (skamníon) f (plural σκαμνία)

1. (Byzantine) bench
2. (Byzantine) stool

Descendants

• Greek: σκαμνί (skamní)
• Romani: skamin
• → Old East Slavic: скамиꙗ (skamija)
  • Russian: скамья́ (skamʹjá), скамля́ (skamljá)
    • → Azerbaijani: skamya
    • → Bashkir: эскәмйә (eskämyä)
    • → Central Kurdish: ئەسکەمِل‎ (eskemil), ئەسکەمِلی‎ (eskemilî)
    • → Kyrgyz: скамья (skamʹya)
    • → Uzbek: skameyka
    • → Western Mari: скамня (skamnâ)
  • Ukrainian: скамна́ (skamná), скамня́ (skamnjá), скам'я́ (skamʺjá)
  • → Bulgarian: скамейка (skamejka)
• Turkish: iskemle
• → Old Georgian: სკამი (sḳami)
  • Georgian: სკამი (sḳami)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: skámija

References

• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900), “σκαμνίον”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 991b
• Lampe, G. W. H. (1961), “σκαμνίον”, in A Patristic Greek Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1235b
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “скамья”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress