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koina

koina noun: a local dialect of a koine. Also the plural of koinon.

Noun

koina (plural koinas or koinai)

  1. A local dialect of a koine.
    • The normal assumption that Τέταρτος is due to Doric or Attic influence and τέτορτος is the ‘correct’ form cannot be accepted a priori, but is supported by the presence of τέταρτος in a few Mantinean inscriptions written almost in Doric koina.1968, Atti e memorie, page 795
    • The documents from Kytenion are in North-west Greek koina:[…]2007, Stephen Colvin, “Koine and North-west Greek Koina”, in A Historical Greek Reader: Mycenaean to the Koiné, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 188

Also used as

koina is also the plural of koinon.

Examples of koina in a sentence

  • The Sicilian Hellenistic inscriptions, and especially the public ones, show a highly standardized language, which can be called Sicilian Doric koina.2012, Susana Mimbrera, “The Sicilian Doric koina”, in Olga Tribulato, editor, Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily, Cambridge...
  • As a general rule, dialectologists normally use the term ‘koina’ to refer to a local variant of koine or, in other words, to the admixture of koine and the dialect spoken in a particular Doric area.2018, Araceli Striano, “Koiné, Koiná, Koinaí: Are we Talking About the Same Thing?”, in Georgios K. Giannakis, Emilio Crespo, Panagiotis...

Forms of koina

pluralkoinas
pluralkoinai

Questions about koina

What does koina mean?
Koina means a local dialect of a koine.
How do you use koina in a sentence?
The Sicilian Hellenistic inscriptions, and especially the public ones, show a highly standardized language, which can be called Sicilian Doric koina.
What part of speech is koina?
Koina is a noun.
What is the plural of koina?
The plural of koina is koinas.

Words near koina in the dictionary

  1. koilosternia
  2. Koilou
  3. Koilouhanpa
  4. koils
  5. koimesis
  6. koina
  7. koinai
  8. koinas
  9. koine
  10. Koine Greek
  11. koineisation

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