Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σκαμνίν ‎(skamnín)
• σκαμνί ‎(skamní)
• σκάμνον ‎(skámnon)

Noun

σκαμνίον • ‎(skamníon) f ‎(plural σκαμνία)

1. (Byzantine) bench
2. (Byzantine) stool

Descendants

• Greek: σκαμνί ‎(skamní)
• → Georgian: სკამი ‎(sḳami)
• → Old East Slavic: скамиꙗ ‎(skamija)
  • Russian: скамья́ ‎(skamʹjá), скамля́ ‎(skamljá)
    • → Western Mari: скамня ‎(skamnja)
  • Ukrainian: скамна́ ‎(skamná), скамня́ ‎(skamnjá), скам'я́ ‎(skamʺjá)
• → Serbo-Croatian: skámija

References

• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900), “σκαμνίον”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 991b
• Lampe, G. W. H. (1961), “σκαμνίον”, in A Patristic Greek Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1235b
• Fasmer, Maks (1973), “скамья”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, translated from German and supplemented by Trubačev O. N., Moscow: Progress, page 632