βυζόν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to βυνέω (bunéō, “to stuff, cram”) and βύζην (búzēn, “closely, close pressed”). Pokorny derives it from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to blow up, swell”) (Proto-Slavic *bujьnъ, Albanian mbush), but Beekes rejects this due to variance between initial p- and b- in the cognates he collects.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /βyˈzon/ → /viˈzon/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /byˈzon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βyˈzon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vyˈzon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /viˈzon/

Adjective

βυζόν • (buzón)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: πυκνόν (puknón, “close, compact”), συνετόν (sunetón, “intelligent, wise”), γαῦρον (gaûron, “haughty”), μέγα (méga, “big”).

Further reading

• “βυζόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βυζόν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Hesychius' Lexicon: β
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “98-102”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 98-102