Μνίει
consumes, ingests
Translated by Kyle Helms4 Jun 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] eats.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μνίει· ἐσθίει.
Betacode
*mni/ei: e)sqi/ei.
Notes
- The headword (evidently quoted from somewhere, though now attested only in lexica) is the third person singular, present indicative active, of the very rare verb
mni/ein . This entry also appears at Hesychius mu1517 and Photius mu490 Theodoridis; and cf. the grammarians Herodian and Theognostus on the first person singular. The present infinitive, likewise, is glossed in Hesychius kappa1269, which is an entry for its compound:katamniei=: katapi/nei, katesqi/ei. *mni/ein ga\r to\ e)sqi/ein . Chantraine makes no comment on the etymology.
References
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, ed. 2 (2009) p. 681
Neighbouring entries
Revision history3 revisions · last 26 May 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- translated headword; augmented note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- expanded note, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Kyle Helms