ὕδνον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οἶδνον (oîdnon), οἶτνον (oîtnon), ὕτνον (hútnon)

Etymology

The word has hesitantly been connected to ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) as "juicy", to ὕω (húō, “to rain”) as "rain plant" and to ὗς (hûs, “swine”) as "sow-bread". In view of the alternative forms, Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek word and links it with ἴτον (íton, “kind of mushroom”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.dnon/ → /ˈy.ðnon/ → /ˈi.ðnon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.dnon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.dnon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.ðnon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.ðnon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ðnon/

Noun

ὕδνον • (húdnon) n (genitive ὕδνου); second declension

1. truffle, earthnut

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῠ̔́δνον; τοῦ ῠ̔́δνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῠ̔́δνον tò húdnon	τὼ ῠ̔́δνω tṑ húdnō	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́δνᾰ tà húdna
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́δνου toû húdnou	τοῖν ῠ̔́δνοιν toîn húdnoin	τῶν ῠ̔́δνων tôn húdnōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́δνῳ tôi húdnōi	τοῖν ῠ̔́δνοιν toîn húdnoin	τοῖς ῠ̔́δνοις toîs húdnois
Accusative	τὸ ῠ̔́δνον tò húdnon	τὼ ῠ̔́δνω tṑ húdnō	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔́δνᾰ tà húdna
Vocative	ῠ̔́δνον húdnon	ῠ̔́δνω húdnō	ῠ̔́δνᾰ húdna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὑδνόφῠλλον (hudnóphullon)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Hydnum

Further reading

• “ὕδνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὕδνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN