ἀννίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-ih₂- (“grandmother”). Cognates include Latin anus (“old woman”), Old Armenian հան (han, “grandmother”) and Lithuanian anýta (“mother-in-law”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /an.nís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /anˈnis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /anˈnis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /anˈnis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈnis/
Noun
ἀννίς • (annís) f (genitive unknown)
- (hapax legomenon) maternal or paternal grandmother.
Usage notes
Glossed by Hesychius as μητρὸς ἢ πατρὸς μήτηρ (mētròs ḕ patròs mḗtēr, “mother’s or father’s mother”).
Inflection
- ἄννιν sg (ánnin, acc.)
Further reading
- ἀννίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀννίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀννίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- Hesychius' Lexicon: α