If I remember correctly, the Greek word used by Homer was 'medeis' where the first e is an eta and the word is pronounced may-dace. It is declined like the famous heis, mia, hen, meaning one (masculine), one (feminine), one (neuter). But it has been fifty years since I studied Greek and tried to read Homer. But you should be able to find it in a decent classical Greek dictionary under: mu, eta, delta, epsilon, iota, sigma. My little modern Greek traveler's dictionary has only 'meden' - mu, eta, delta, epsilon, nu - meaning nothing.
Arthur (Exalted one in Celtic)
Klein (Little in German)
How about that for an oxymoronic name.
Arthur (Exalted one in Celtic)
Klein (Little in German)
How about that for an oxymoronic name.
While we're on the topic, I should also note my Chinese name
(self-selected with a little help from the web)
柠檬
Pronounced ne-mo. It has a meaning I like a lot, but which shall be left as an exercise for the reader (and I've already done it -- haha).
The etymology
ReplyDeleteof nemo according to Martin Bernal says it comes from Egyptian (via Greek) and means "to allocate pasture".