φεννίον

φεννίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰen.ní.on/ → /ɸenˈni.on/ → /feˈni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰen.ní.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰenˈni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸenˈni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fenˈni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /feˈni.on/

Noun

φεννίον • (phenníon)

1. Hesychius gives the definition as: Μηδική ὁδός (Mēdikḗ hodós, literally “Median road”).

Further reading

• “φεννίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “φεννίον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1561
• Hesychius' Lexicon: φ