Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /yákinθos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yácĩθos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iáciθos/

Proper noun

Ὑάκινθος • ‎(Huákinthos) m ‎(genitive Ὑακίνθου); second declension

1. Hyacinthus

Inflection

Related terms

• Ὑακίνθη ‎(Huakínthē)

Derived terms

• Ὑακίνθια ‎(Huakínthia)

Descendants

• Asturian: Xacintu
• Breton: Hyakinthos
• Catalan: Jacint
• Czech: Hyakinthos
• Dutch: Hyakinthos
• English: Hyacinth
• Finnish: Hyakinthos
• French: Hyacinthe
• Galician: Xacinto
• German: Hyakinthos, Hyazinth
• Greek: Υάκινθος ‎(Yákinthos)
• Hebrew: יקינתון ‎(Yakinton)
• Italian: Giacinto
• Japanese: ヒュアキントス ‎(Hyuakintosu)
• Latin: Hyacinthus
• Polish: Hiakintos, Hiacynt
• Portuguese: Jacinto
• Russian: Гиацинт ‎(Giacint)
• Serbo-Croatian: Хијакинт, Hijakint
• Slovenian: Hijacint
• Spanish: Jacinto

References

• Ὑάκινθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ὑάκινθος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013

Ancient Greek

Noun

ῠ̔ᾰ́κινθος • ‎(huákinthos) m ‎(genitive ῠ̔ᾰκίνθου); second declension

1. The alpine squill (Scilla bifolia)
2. The larkspur (Consolida ajacis)
3. A certain type of blue
4. A blue precious stone, perhaps aquamarine

Inflection

Related terms

• Ὑάκινθος ‎(Huákinthos)

Descendants

• Greek: υάκινθος ‎(yákinthos)
• → Classical Syriac: ܝܩܘܢܕܐ ‎(yāqūndāʾ, yaqqūndāʾ), ܝܘܩܢܛܐ ‎(yūqanṭāʾ, “jacinth”)
• → Latin: hyacinthus
  • → English: hyacinth
  • → French: jacinthe
  • → Swedish: hyacint
    • → Finnish: hyasintti
  • → German: Hyazinthe
    • → Russian: гиацинт ‎(giacint)
  • → Middle High German: jâchant
    • → Old Polish: jachant
      • → Old East Slavic: ꙗхонт ‎(jaxont)
        • Russian: яхонт ‎(jaxont)
        • Ukrainian: яхонт ‎(jaxont)
  • → Spanish: jacinto
  • → Serbo-Croatian: hijàcint / хија̀цинт
• → Middle Persian: yʾknd ‎(yākand, “ruby”)
  • Persian: یاکند ‎(yâkand)
• → Old Armenian: յակինթ ‎(yakintʿ)
  • → Georgian: იაკინთი ‎(iaḳinti)
• → Old Church Slavonic: акинтъ ‎(akintŭ), акунтъ ‎(akuntŭ), ꙗкинфъ ‎(jakinfŭ)
• → Parthian:
  • Manichaean: yʾkwnd ‎(yākund)
  • → Old Armenian: յակունդ ‎(yakund)
    • → Georgian: იაგუნდი ‎(iagundi)
• → Sogdian: yγwth ‎(yaγūt, “ruby”)
  • → Arabic: ياقوت ‎(yāqūt)
    • → Kurdish: yaqût
    • → Middle Armenian: եաղութ ‎(eałutʿ)
    • → Persian: یاقوت ‎(yâqut)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: یاقوت ‎(yakut)
        • Turkish: yakut
        • → Serbo-Croatian: jàkut / ја̀кут
      • → Hindustani:
        • Hindi: याक़ूत ‎(yāqūt)
        • Urdu: ياقوت ‎(yāqūt)
    • → Uyghur: ياقۇت ‎(yaqut)

References

• ὑάκινθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὑάκινθος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὑάκινθος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὑάκινθος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὑάκινθος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G5192”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1523