Μεναί - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #139
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 444.12 | Billerbeck: Μ139
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count: 15
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus) FGrHist 244 F 5 [β Χρονικῶν]
Entities: Μεναί (Menai) [place], Σικελία (Sicily) [place], Παλίκοι (Palici) [deity], Μεναῖος (Menaios (demonym)) [people], Ἁλικύαι (Halikyai (place)) [place], Ἁλικυαῖος (Halikyaios (demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: The ethnic (demonym) is 'Μεναῖος' (Menaios), formed analogously to Ἁλικυαί → Ἁλικυαῖος.
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Μεναί, πόλις Σικελίας ἐγγὺς Παλικῶν. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεναῖος, ὡς Ἁλικύαι Ἁλικυαῖος.

Menai: a city of Sicily, near the Palikoi. Apollodoros in Book 2 of the Chronicles. The ethnic (gentilic) is Menaios, as (from) Halikyai comes Halikyaios.

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char LCS 58 (63.0%) · word LCS 9 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Μεναί, πόλις Σικελίας ἐγγὺς Παλικῶν. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεναῖος, ὡς Ἁλικύαι Ἁλικυαῖος.

Herodian

…υσιανή ἡ χώρα καὶ κώμη Σουσιανή. Συρβανή νῆσος ἐν τῷ Εὐφράτῃ. Τὰ εἰς 'νη' δισύλλαβα τῷ 'ε' παραληγόμενα καὶ βαρύνεται καὶ ὀξύνεται. βαρύνεται τὸ ἔνη, ὀξύνεται τὸ Θεναί πόλις Κρήτης, τινὲς δὲ Ἀρκαδίας. οἱ δ´ ὄρος· καὶ τὸ Μεναί πόλις Σικελίας ἐγγὺς Παλικῶν. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν. καὶ τὸ εὐνή μετὰ τοῦ 'υ'. γέγονε γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ εἷς ἑνός ἑνή καὶ εὐνή, ψιλουμένης τῆς 'ευ' διφθόγγου, ἐπεὶ τὸ 'υ' πλεονάζον ψιλοῖ τὰ πρὸ ἑαυτοῦ φωνήεντα, ἕκηλος εὔκηλος, ἕαδε εὔαδε. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ Εὐναί πόλις Καρίας, ἐν ᾗ πο…