Noun: hiena
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | hiena |
| Plural f | hienes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like hiena
taquicàrdia,
indumentària,
histerectomia,
secada,
seguda,
segura,
segada,
segona,
sedera,
sembra,
savina,
safata,
sageta,
sagita,
sagnia,
sabata,
sabana,
sacada,
sambra,
sanefa, 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 hyaenalbor.
17. Catalan hiena
18. Learned borrowing from Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὕαινα'.
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