λάχνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From earlier *ϝλακσνά (wlaksná), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair, wool”), like Latin vellus (“fleece”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lá.kʰnɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.kʰne̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.xni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.xni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.xni/

Noun

λάχνη • (lákhnē) f (genitive λάχνης); first declension

soft, woolly hair, down, as of the first beard
thin hair
soft nap or pile on cloth
hair or fur of wild beasts
(in the plural) the quills of the hedgehog
leafage

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

λαχναῖος (lakhnaîos)
λαχνήεις (lakhnḗeis)
λαχνόγυιος (lakhnóguios)
λαχνόομαι (lakhnóomai)
λαχνώδης (lakhnṓdēs)
λάχνωσις (lákhnōsis)

References

“λάχνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
λάχνη 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

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