σκαμνίον

• σκαμνίν (skamnín), σκαμνί (skamní), σκάμνον (skámnon)

Diminutive of Koine Greek σκάμνον (skámnon), borrowed from Latin scamnum.

σκαμνίον • (skamníon) f (plural σκαμνία)

1. (Byzantine) bench
2. (Byzantine) stool

• Greek: σκαμνί (skamní)
• → Old East Slavic: скамиꙗ (skamija)
  • Russian: скамья́ (skamʹjá), скамля́ (skamljá)
    • → Azerbaijani: skamya
    • → Bashkir: эскәмйә (eskəmyə)
    • → Central Kurdish: ئەسکەمِل (eskemil), ئەسکەمِلی (eskemilî)
    • → Karelian: skammi
    • → Kyrgyz: скамья (skamya)
    • → Uzbek: skameyka
    • → Western Mari: скамня (skamńa)
  • Ukrainian: скамна́ (skamná), скамня́ (skamnjá), скам'я́ (skamʺjá)
  • →? Bulgarian: скамейка (skamejka)
• → Old Georgian: სკამი (sḳami)
  • Georgian: სკამი (sḳami)
• → Romani: skamin
• → Serbo-Croatian: skámija
• → Turkish: iskemle

• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900), “σκαμνίον”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 991b
• Lampe, Geoffrey William Hugo (1961), “σκαμνίον”, in A Patristic Greek Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1235b
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “скамья”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress