κανθίαι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, a derivation without -λ- from the same Pre-Greek root of κανθήλια (kanthḗlia, “panniers”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kanˈθi.ɛ/ → /kanˈθi.e/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kanˈtʰi.ɛ/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kanˈθi.ɛ/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kanˈθi.e/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kanˈθi.e/

Noun

κανθίαι • (kanthíai)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: σπυρίδες (spurídes, “large baskets, creels”).

Further reading

• “κανθίαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κανθήλια”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 635
• Hesychius' Lexicon: κ