σκύτη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée compares this word, together with σκύτα (skúta, “neck, throat”), to κοττίς (kottís, “occiput”) and προκόττα (prokótta, “forelock”) and assumes a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ský.tɛː/ → /ˈscy.ti/ → /ˈsci.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ský.tɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsky.te̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈscy.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈscy.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.ti/

Noun

σκύτη • (skútē)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).

References

• “σκύτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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: σ