Μεσσάπιος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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According to Pokorny, the Messapic name means "amid waters," from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos + *h₂ep-, the latter of which gave their region Apulia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Μεσσάπῐος (Messápiosm (genitive Μεσσαπίου); second declension

  1. one of the Messapii; a Messapian

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Greek: Μεσσάπιος (Messápios)
  • Latin: Messapius

References

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  • de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999) Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation [Noun Formation in Old Irish: Stem-formation and derivation] (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN

Further reading

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  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017