ῥίον
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See also: Ῥίον
Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The word is isolated within Hellenic and has no certain etymology. If it originally had an initial "ϝ-", it would recall βρία (bría, “town”) and perhaps also Tocharian B riye (“town”). The connections with Proto-Germanic *risiz (“giant”), Latin verrūca (“wart”), Proto-Slavic *vьrxъ (“top, peak”) and Sanskrit वर्ष्मन् (varṣman, “height, top”) are no better. As an alternative to all these problematic suggestions, Beekes considers the possibility that the word is of Pre-Greek origin.
Attested in Mycenaean Greek as 𐀪𐀍 (ri-jo).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥í.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈri.on/
Noun[edit]
ῥίον • (rhíon) n (genitive ῥίου); second declension
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ῥῐ́ον tò rhíon |
τὼ ῥῐ́ω tṑ rhíō |
τᾰ̀ ῥῐ́ᾰ tà rhía | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῥῐ́ου toû rhíou |
τοῖν ῥῐ́οιν toîn rhíoin |
τῶν ῥῐ́ων tôn rhíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῥῐ́ῳ tôi rhíōi |
τοῖν ῥῐ́οιν toîn rhíoin |
τοῖς ῥῐ́οις toîs rhíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ῥῐ́ον tò rhíon |
τὼ ῥῐ́ω tṑ rhíō |
τᾰ̀ ῥῐ́ᾰ tà rhía | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῥῐ́ον rhíon |
ῥῐ́ω rhíō |
ῥῐ́ᾰ rhía | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
- Ῥίον (Rhíon)
Further reading[edit]
- “ῥίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ῥίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ῥίον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1287
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