1. νιν · nin — Beekes
νιν = αὐτόν, αὐτήν, etc. =LLtv. νίννη [f.] ‘grandmother, mother-in-law(?)’. >vévvoc. — [Beekes, s.v. νιν, p. 1073]
The corpus record
νῐν
nin
grandmother, mother-in-law(?)
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Where it lives
- Bacchae 29 · 38.56/10k
- Trachiniae 20 · 27.52/10k
- Libation Bearers 14 · 26.04/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 21 · 23.52/10k
- Oedipus Tyrannus 19 · 20.54/10k
- Trojan Women 14 · 19.78/10k
- Hecuba 14 · 19.55/10k
- Orestes 19 · 19.37/10k
- Phoenissae 18 · 18.65/10k
- Iphigenia in Tauris 15 · 18.08/10k
- Heracles 12 · 15.33/10k
- Agamemnon 12 · 14.79/10k
Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. νιν · nin — Chantraine
νιν, Voir μιν. , = νίννη, voir νέννος. νίννιον : pupus (Gloss.). — [Chantraine, s.v. νιν, p. 772]
3. νῐν · nin — LSJ
him, her, it
him, her (but never used reflexively), h.Ven. 280, Alcm. 23.44, Thgn. 364, Epich. 21, Sophr. 35, etc.; also in Dor. Inscrr., IG 42 (1).121.12, al. (Epid., iv B.C.), Abh.Berl.Akad. 1925(5).21 (Cyrene, iv B.C.); αὐτόν νιν IG 42(1).122.47 (Epid.): seldom for αὐτό, it, as in Pi. P. 4.242, A. Ch. 542, S. Tr. 145: less freq. in pl., for αὐτούς, B. 8.15, Pi. Fr. 7, S. OT 868 (lyr.), E. Supp. 1140 (lyr.); for αὐτάς, S. OC 43, 1123, Ant. 577; νιν αὐτάς E. Ba. 32; for αὐτά, S. El. 436, 624.
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for dat. αὐτῷ, Pi. P. 4.36, N. 1.66 (nisi leg. ἱν, i.e. ϝιν).
In the wild
- νιν · nin Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1050–1052
- νιν · nin Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1232
- νιν · nin Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1284–1285
- νιν · nin Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1384
- νιν · nin Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1552–1559
- νιν · nin Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1643–1645
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. νῐν (scan p. 1073; entry #4356).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. νῐν (scan p. 772; entry #5668).
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