YKON (Bulgarian inscription, 9th cent.) → οἶκον, οἴκων → house, houses'

[ohsi]

Ykon-english translation

[billberg23]

If this is again from a proto-Bulgarian inscription (please give surrounding context!), it's probably a Slavic word, not a Greek word.

[spiros]

εἰκών is icon, if that has any relevance.

[ohsi]

here is the context/ with the original letters/:KANA CYBIГHWM OMORTAGIS/it is the name of a king/ TON PALEON YKON AYTU MENON EПYHCEN YPERФYMON YKON IC TON DANUBIN.KE ANAMECA TON DUO YKON TON PANFYMON KATAMETRICAC IS TIN MECIN EПYICA TUMBAN.

[crystal]

I think it is ΟΙΚΟΝ (οίκος) = house, home

[billberg23]

Crystal must be right here.  The substitution of Y for Greek oi is confirmed elsewhere in the inscription: EПYHCEN = epoiēsen, "he made," and EПYICA = epoiēsa, "I made."  So the first two instances of YKON are equivalent to Greek oikon (accusative singular), while the third (ANAMECA TON DUO YKON) = Greek anamesa tōn duo oikōn, "between the two houses," with oikōn being genitive plural.

[ohsi]

YPERФYMON YKON -could it means "temple"?

[ohsi]

YPERФYMON YKON -probably it is not an ordinary home, but some kind of temple or church. What is your opinion?

[spiros]

No need to post new topic.

[billberg23]

The YPERФYMON YKON ("splendid dwelling") seems to be more like a palace, ohsi.  The whole sentence seems to say that "the king, while staying in his old dwelling, built a splendid dwelling on the Danube.  And I, after measuring the distance between them, built a tomb in the middle between the two proud dwellings."