φύσκη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φύσκα (phúska), φύσκος (phúskos)

Etymology

From φυσάω (phusáō, “to blow, puff”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰýs.kɛː/ → /ˈɸys.ci/ → /ˈfis.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰýs.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰys.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸys.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfys.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfis.ci/

Noun

φῠ́σκη • (phúskē) f (genitive φῠ́σκης); first declension

1. (anatomy) large intestine
2. blood pudding, sausage
3. blister or weal on the hand
4. gall on a plant

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φῠ́σκη; τῆς φῠ́σκης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῠ́σκη hē phúskē	τὼ φῠ́σκᾱ tṑ phúskā	αἱ φῠ́σκαι hai phúskai
Genitive	τῆς φῠ́σκης tês phúskēs	τοῖν φῠ́σκαιν toîn phúskain	τῶν φῠσκῶν tôn phuskôn
Dative	τῇ φῠ́σκῃ têi phúskēi	τοῖν φῠ́σκαιν toîn phúskain	ταῖς φῠ́σκαις taîs phúskais
Accusative	τὴν φῠ́σκην tḕn phúskēn	τὼ φῠ́σκᾱ tṑ phúskā	τᾱ̀ς φῠ́σκᾱς tā̀s phúskās
Vocative	φῠ́σκη phúskē	φῠ́σκᾱ phúskā	φῠ́σκαι phúskai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φυσκία (phuskía)
• φύσκιον (phúskion)
• φυσκών (phuskṓn)

 

Descendants

• Greek: φούσκα (foúska)
• ⇒ Byzantine Greek: φυσκίον (phuskíon, diminutive)
  • > Greek: φουσκί (fouskí) (inherited)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: فشقی (fışkı), فشكی (fışkı)
      • Turkish: fışkı, fışgı
      • → Armenian: ֆըշխի (fəšxi)
  • > Pontic Greek: φουσ̌κίν (fouškín), φουσ̌κί (fouškí) (inherited)

Further reading

• “φύσκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φύσκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φύσκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette