Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ἑλένη • ‎(Helénē) f ‎(genitive Ἑλένης); first declension

1. Helen

Inflection

Related terms

• Ἕλενος ‎(Hélenos)

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Helene
• Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: Հեղինէ ‎(Hełinē)
    • Armenian: Հեղինե ‎(Hełine)
• Basque: Helena
• Belarusian: Алена ‎(Alena)
• Breton: Elena
• Catalan: Helena
• Czech: Helena
• Danish: Helena
• Dutch: Helena
• English: Helen, Ellen, Elayne
• Estonian: Helena
• Finnish: Helena
• French: Hélène
• German: Helena
• Greek: Ελένη ‎(Eléni)
• Hebrew: הלנה
• Hungarian: Helené
• Indonesian: Helena
• Italian: Elena
• Japanese: ヘレネ ‎(Herene)
• Korean: 헬레네 ‎(Hellene)
• Latin: Helena
• Lithuanian: Helenė
• Norwegian: Helena
• Persian: هلن ‎(Helen)
• Polish: Helena
• Portuguese: Helena
• Romanian: Elena
• Russian: Елена ‎(Jelena)
• Serbo-Croatian: Јелена ‎(Jelena)
• Slovak: Helena
• Spanish: Helena, Elena
• Swedish: Helena
• Turkish: Helen
• Ukrainian: Олена ‎(Olena)
• Yiddish: העלענע ‎(Helene)

References

• Ἑλένη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «Ἑλένη» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012