motherʼs brother, uncle
motherʼs brother, uncle, Hsch.
The corpus record
γένν-ας
gennas · ὁ
motherʼs brother, uncle
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Prometheus Bound 4 · 6.8/10k
- Phoenissae 4 · 4.14/10k
- Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
- Agamemnon 3 · 3.7/10k
- Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
- Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
- Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
- Symposium 3 · 1.72/10k
- Enneads 33 · 1.56/10k
- Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
- Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- γένναν · gennan Aeschylus, Agamemnon 108–120
- γέννης · gennēs Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1472–1477
- γέννᾳ · gennai Aeschylus, Agamemnon 758–760
- γένναν · gennan Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 247–248
- γέννᾳ · gennai Aeschylus, Persians 932–934
- γέννας · gennas Aeschylus, Persians 944–947
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.