δυσ-

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *dus-, from Proto-Indo-European *dus-, possibly from *dews-. Cognate to Proto-Germanic *tuz- (“hard, difficult, wrong, bad”) (English tore) and Proto-Iranian *duš- (“bad”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dys/ → /ðys/ → /ðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dys/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /dys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðis/

Prefix

δῠσ- • (dŭs-)

1. bad, hard, unfortunate

Derived terms

Ancient Greek terms prefixed with δυσ-

δυσαής

δυσγενής

δυσδιάλυτος

δύσκολος

δυσμενέων

δυσεντερία

δυσηχής

δυσθαλπής

δύσθυμος

δυσθυμία

δυσκέλαδος

δυσμενής

δυσπαίπαλος

δύσπεπτος

δύσπνοος

δύστηνος

δυστυχία

δυστυχώς

δυσχείμερος

Further reading

• “δυσ-”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δυσ- in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• δυσ- in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1418 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible