τύρσις
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely a Mediterranean substrate loan, perhaps from Illyrian.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtyr.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtyr.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtyr.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtir.sis/
Noun
[edit]τύρσις • (túrsis) f (indeclinable)
Descendants
[edit]- Latin: turris (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Τύρσις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1520-1
- ^ Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “τύρσις”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 948-49
Further reading
[edit]- “τύρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τύρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τύρσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
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