"Μαύης" meaning in Ancient Greek

See Μαύης in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Maúēs [romanization], Μαύου [genitive]
Etymology: From Scythian *mava, *mauka (“hero, tiger”) (cf. Khotanese mauya, muyi (“tiger”); Sogdian 𐼺𐼷𐼴 (myu), 𐫖𐫏𐫇 (myu, “tiger”)). Cognate with Gandhari 𐨨𐨆𐨀 (moa) and 𐨨𐨆𐨒 (moga). Etymology templates: {{bor|grc|xsc}} Scythian, {{cog|kho|mauya}} Khotanese mauya, {{cog|sog|𐼺𐼷𐼴|tr=myu}} Sogdian 𐼺𐼷𐼴 (myu), {{cog|pgd|𐨨𐨆𐨀}} Gandhari 𐨨𐨆𐨀 (moa) Head templates: {{grc-proper noun|Μαύου|m|second|head=Μαύης}} Μαύης • (Maúēs) m (genitive Μαύου); second declension
  1. a male given name from Scythian: Maues, an Indo-Scythian king Wikipedia link: Maues Categories (topical): Ancient Greek given names, Ancient Greek male given names

Download JSON data for Μαύης meaning in Ancient Greek (2.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "xsc"
      },
      "expansion": "Scythian",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kho",
        "2": "mauya"
      },
      "expansion": "Khotanese mauya",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sog",
        "2": "𐼺𐼷𐼴",
        "tr": "myu"
      },
      "expansion": "Sogdian 𐼺𐼷𐼴 (myu)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pgd",
        "2": "𐨨𐨆𐨀"
      },
      "expansion": "Gandhari 𐨨𐨆𐨀 (moa)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Scythian *mava, *mauka (“hero, tiger”) (cf. Khotanese mauya, muyi (“tiger”); Sogdian 𐼺𐼷𐼴 (myu), 𐫖𐫏𐫇 (myu, “tiger”)).\nCognate with Gandhari 𐨨𐨆𐨀 (moa) and 𐨨𐨆𐨒 (moga).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Maúēs",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Μαύου",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Μαύου",
        "2": "m",
        "3": "second",
        "head": "Μαύης"
      },
      "expansion": "Μαύης • (Maúēs) m (genitive Μαύου); second declension",
      "name": "grc-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "Ancient Greek given names",
          "parents": [
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "Ancient Greek male given names",
          "parents": [
            "Male given names",
            "Given names",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Khotanese terms in nonstandard scripts",
          "parents": [
            "Terms in nonstandard scripts",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sogdian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Undetermined language links",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a male given name from Scythian: Maues, an Indo-Scythian king"
      ],
      "id": "en-Μαύης-grc-name-4BgQBnYp",
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Maues",
          "Maues"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Maues"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Μαύης"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "xsc"
      },
      "expansion": "Scythian",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kho",
        "2": "mauya"
      },
      "expansion": "Khotanese mauya",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sog",
        "2": "𐼺𐼷𐼴",
        "tr": "myu"
      },
      "expansion": "Sogdian 𐼺𐼷𐼴 (myu)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pgd",
        "2": "𐨨𐨆𐨀"
      },
      "expansion": "Gandhari 𐨨𐨆𐨀 (moa)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Scythian *mava, *mauka (“hero, tiger”) (cf. Khotanese mauya, muyi (“tiger”); Sogdian 𐼺𐼷𐼴 (myu), 𐫖𐫏𐫇 (myu, “tiger”)).\nCognate with Gandhari 𐨨𐨆𐨀 (moa) and 𐨨𐨆𐨒 (moga).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Maúēs",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Μαύου",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Μαύου",
        "2": "m",
        "3": "second",
        "head": "Μαύης"
      },
      "expansion": "Μαύης • (Maúēs) m (genitive Μαύου); second declension",
      "name": "grc-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
        "Ancient Greek given names",
        "Ancient Greek lemmas",
        "Ancient Greek male given names",
        "Ancient Greek masculine nouns",
        "Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns",
        "Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension",
        "Ancient Greek paroxytone terms",
        "Ancient Greek proper nouns",
        "Ancient Greek second-declension proper nouns",
        "Ancient Greek terms borrowed from Scythian languages",
        "Ancient Greek terms derived from Scythian languages",
        "Ancient Greek terms with redundant head parameter",
        "Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes",
        "Khotanese terms in nonstandard scripts",
        "Sogdian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Undetermined language links"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a male given name from Scythian: Maues, an Indo-Scythian king"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ],
        [
          "Maues",
          "Maues"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Maues"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Μαύης"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.