Μνίει

consumes, ingests

Translated by Kyle Helms4 Jun 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

3 words

Translation

[Meaning he/she/it] eats.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μνίει· ἐσθίει.

Betacode
*mni/ei: e)sqi/ei. 

Notes

  1. 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

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Revision history3 revisions · last 26 May 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. translated headword; augmented note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  3. expanded note, set status — Catharine Roth
  4. Translated — Kyle Helms

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