χιών

From Proto-Hellenic *kʰiṓn, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéyōm. Cognate with χεῖμα (kheîma, “snow”) and χειμών (kheimṓn, “winter”), Latin hiems, Welsh gaeaf, Sanskrit हिम (himá), Hittite 𒄀𒈠𒀭 (giman), Armenian ձմեռ (jmeṙ), Proto-Slavic *zima, Albanian dimër.

χῑ̆ών • (khī̆ṓn) f (genitive χῑ̆όνος); third declension

1. snow

   Synonym: νῐ́ψ (nĭ́ps)

2. melted snow, ice water

• Generally pronounced χῐών (khĭṓn), but sometimes as χῑών (khīṓn) for the sake of meter.

• χῐόνῐνος (khĭónĭnos)

• → Coptic: ⲭⲓⲱⲛ (khiōn)
• ⇒ Koine Greek: χιόνιον (khiónion)
  • Byzantine Greek: χιόνι (khióni)
    • Greek: χιόνι (chióni)
    • Mariupol Greek: шон (šon)
• → New Latin: Chionanthus

• “χιών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χιών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χιών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χιών in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χιών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χιών”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5510 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • snow idem, page 789.