Discussion of words and place-names containing the element -ανη/-αναι, with accentuation rules and many geographic examples (Κάναι, Κάνναι, Σάνη, Δρεπάνη, Κατάνη, Ταπροβάνη, etc.).
Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ανη' δισύλλαβα μονογενῆ βαρύνεται, ἄνη ἡ ἄνυσις, πλάνη, Κάνη καὶ Κάναι «πολίχνιον Λοκρῶν τῶν ἐκ Κύνου κατὰ τὰ ἄκρα τῆς Λέσβου». ἔστι καὶ ὄρος καὶ λιμήν. Στράβων ιγʹ. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Κάναι τοῦ Τίγρητος ποταμοῦ. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ Κάνναι διὰ δύο 'νν'. Σάνη πόλις Θρᾴκης μεταξὺ Ἄθω καὶ Παλλήνης. τὸ δὲ φανή παρ´ Ἡσιόδῳ ἐν δευτέρῳ εἰρημένον· οἳ πρόσθε φανὴν ἔντοσθεν ἔκευθον. ὀξύνεται. τὸ μέντοι παρὰ Κορίννῃ βανά οὐ κοινὸν οὐδὲ εἰς 'νη' λῆγον, ἀλλὰ ἴδιον θέμα Βοιωτῶν τασσόμενον ἀντὶ τοῦ γυνή. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ανη' μονογενῆ ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς βαρύνεται, θηγάνη ἡ ἀκόνη, Ἐργάνη ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ, ὁρκάνη ἡ εἱρκτή, σαργάνη, πτισάνη, δαπάνη, λεκάνη, βοτάνη, δρεπάνη· Δρεπάνη δὲ ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ ἡ Φαιακία. ἔστι καὶ Λυκίας Δρεπάνη· ἔστι καὶ Δρεπάνη Βιθυνίας πρὸς τῷ Ἀστακηνῷ κόλπῳ, ἣν....... φησὶν ὠνομάσθαι, ὅτι «Δρεπάνην κλείουσιν ἀπὸ Κρονίδαο σιδήρου». ἔστι καὶ ὄρος Αἰθιοπίας. βρυκάνη, τρυπάνη. Λευκάνη ἡ τῶν Λευκῶν πόλις ἀπὸ Λευκίου τινός. Κατάνη πόλις Σικελίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ «μετὰ δὲ Κατάνη πόλις, ὑπὲρ δὲ ὄρος Αἴτνη». κέκληται δὲ οὕτως, ἐπειδὴ κατέβη πρὸς τὸν Ἀμενανὸν ποταμὸν ἡ Θεοκλέους τοῦ Χαλκιδέως ναῦς, ἣν Δωριεῖς χωρὶς τοῦ 'υ' νᾶν φασιν, ἢ ὅτι τῆς Αἴτνης κατατεθείσης τὸ ἄνω κάτω γέγονεν. Μασχάνη πόλις πρὸς τῶν Σκηνιτῶν Ἀράβων. Κορομάνη πόλις πρὸς τὸν Περσικὸν κόλπον. Μαλσάνη πόλις τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας. Πιτάνη πόλις Αἰολίδος. Σικάνη πόλις Ἰβηρίας, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Ῥωγάνη πόλις ἐν τῇ Ἰνδικῇ. Στεφάνη πόλις Φωκίδος. Ταπροβάνη νῆσος μεγίστη ἐν τῇ Ἰνδικῇ θαλάσσῃ. Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ καὶ Λύχνος νῆσος τετράπλευρος, ἁλιστέφανος Ταπροβάνη θηρονόμος πέπληθεν ἐϋρρίνων ἐλεφάντων. ἣ πάλαι μὲν ἐκαλεῖτο Σιμούνδου, νῦν δὲ Σαλική, πλοῦ μῆκος. οὖσα ἑπτάκις που χιλίων σταδίων, πλάτος δὲ πεντακοσίων. τὰ αὐτὰ δὲ καὶ Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐνάτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. Τελάνη πόλις ἀρχαιοτάτη Συρίας, ἣν ᾤκει Νίνος πρὸ τῆς Νίνου κτίσεως. Χανδάνη πόλις Ἰαπυγίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ «ἐν δὲ Χανδάνη πόλις, μετὰ δὲ Πευκαῖοι». Ἀδράνη πόλις Θρᾴκης, ἣ μικρὸν ὑπὲρ τῆς Βερενίκης κεῖται, ὡς Θεόπομπος. Πολύβιος δὲ διὰ τοῦ 'η' τὴν μέσην λέγει ἐν τρισκαιδεκάτῃ, Ἀδρήνη. Ἀφάναι χωρίον Σικελίας ἄσημον, ἀφ´ οὗ ἡ «εἰς Ἀφάνας»
The disyllabic, monogenetic words in -ανη are barytone: ἄνη, “completion”; πλάνη; Κάνη and Κάναι, “a small town of the Locrians from Cyon, on the heights of Lesbos.” There is also a mountain and a harbor. Strabo, book 13. There is also a city Κάναι on the river Tigris. There are also Κάνναι with two νν. Σάνη, a city of Thrace between Athos and Pallene. But φανή, as said by Hesiod in the second book—“who formerly kept φανή hidden within”—is oxytone. However, the word βανά in Corinna is not common, nor does it end in -νη, but is a special Boeotian stem used in place of γυνή. The monogenetic words in -ανη of more than two syllables are barytone: θηγάνη, “whetstone”; Ἐργάνη, Athena; ὁρκάνη, “prison”; σαργάνη; πτισάνη; δαπάνη; λεκάνη; βοτάνη; δρεπάνη. Δρεπάνη was also the name of Phaeacia. There is also a Δρεπάνη of Lycia; and there is also a Δρεπάνη of Bithynia by the Astacene gulf, which … says was so named because “they celebrate Δρεπάνη from the iron of Cronus’ son.” There is also a mountain of Ethiopia. βρυκάνη; τρυπάνη. Λευκάνη, the city of the Leuci, from a certain Leucius. Κατάνη, a city of Sicily. Hecataeus in his Europe: “and after Κατάνη, a city, and above it Mount Aetna.” It is so called because the ship of Theocles the Chalcidian went down to the river Amenanus— which the Dorians, without the υ, call νᾶν— or because, when Aetna collapsed, what was above became below. Μασχάνη, a city among the Scenite Arabs. Κορομάνη, a city by the Persian gulf. Μαλσάνη, a city of Arabia Felix. Πιτάνη, a city of Aeolis. Σικάνη, a city of Iberia, as Hecataeus says in his Europe. Ῥωγάνη, a city in India. Στεφάνη, a city of Phocis. Ταπροβάνη, a very large island in the Indian sea. Alexander, also called Lychnus: “a four-sided island, garlanded with salt, Ταπροβάνη, rich in game, abounds in broad-nostrilled elephants.” It was formerly called Σιμούνδου, but now Σαλική; its length of voyage is about seven thousand stades, and its breadth five hundred. Artemidorus says the same in the ninth book of his Geography. Τελάνη, a most ancient city of Syria, which Ninus inhabited before the founding of Nineveh. Χανδάνη, a city of Iapygia. Hecataeus in his Europe: “and in Χανδάνη, a city, and after it the Peucaei.” Ἀδράνη, a city of Thrace, which lies a little above Berenice, as Theopompus says. But Polybius, in the thirteenth book, gives the middle vowel as η, Ἀδρήνη. Ἀφάναι, an insignificant place of Sicily, from which comes the expression “to Ἀφάνας.”