κύβη
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]No known cognates, therefore probably from Pre-Greek. Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *kewb(ʰ)- (“to bend, bulge; protrusion, hill, bowl”) (cf. Proto-Slavic *kubъ (“bucket”), perhaps also Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “hollow in the hips”)), but the presence of *b is suspicious and the semantics are distant.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ký.bɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈky.be̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.βi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.vi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.vi/
Noun
[edit]κῠ́βη • (kúbē) f (indeclinable)
- (hapax) head
- Etymologicum Magnum 543.22
Usage notes
[edit]Cited as the etymon of κυβιστάω (kubistáō, “tumble head-first”) in the Etymologicum Magnum.
References
[edit]- “κύβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κύβη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κύβη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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