Noun: iena
Gender: f
Hyphenation: iè‧na
| Singular f | iena |
| Plural f | iene |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like iena
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sew-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *sewH-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *suH-
5. Proto-Hellenic *hūs
6. Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs)
7. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
8. Ancient Greek -νος (-nos)
9. Proto-Indo-European *-is
10. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
11. Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.
12. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă)
13. Ancient Greek -ῐνᾰ (-ĭnă)der.
14. Ancient Greek -αινα (-aina)
15. Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina)bor.
16. Latin hyaena
17. Italian iena
18. From Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina, “a sow”). See: Latin Nouns '
hyaena', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὕαινα'.
Translations