ψιάς

Ancient Greek

This word is found beside ψακάς (psakás, “drop”); this points to a Pre-Greek origin.

ψῐᾰ́ς • (psiás) f (genitive ψῐᾰ́δος); third declension

drop
Synonyms: πέμφιξ (pémphix), ῥαθάμιγξ (rhatháminx), ῥανίς (rhanís), σταγών (stagṓn), στράγξ (stránx), ψακάς (psakás)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ψῐᾰ́ς hē psiás	τὼ ψῐᾰ́δε tṑ psiáde	αἱ ψῐᾰ́δες hai psiádes
Genitive	τῆς ψῐᾰ́δος tês psiádos	τοῖν ψῐᾰ́δοιν toîn psiádoin	τῶν ψῐᾰ́δων tôn psiádōn
Dative	τῇ ψῐᾰ́δῐ têi psiádi	τοῖν ψῐᾰ́δοιν toîn psiádoin	ταῖς ψῐᾰ́σῐ / ψῐᾰ́σῐν taîs psiási(n)
Accusative	τὴν ψῐᾰ́δᾰ tḕn psiáda	τὼ ψῐᾰ́δε tṑ psiáde	τᾱ̀ς ψῐᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s psiádas
Vocative	ψῐᾰ́ς psiás	ψῐᾰ́δε psiáde	ψῐᾰ́δες psiádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

“ψιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ψιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ψιάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ψιάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ψιάς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
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