Ἶρις
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις (*wîris), then from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁i-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁i- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). Cognates include English wire, Swedish vira (“to twist”), Latin vieō (“weave together”), Welsh gŵyr (“bent”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /îː.ris/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.ris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.ris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.ris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.ris/
Proper noun
[edit]Ἶρῐς • (Îris) f (genitive Ῑ̓́ρῐδος); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Ἶρῐς hē Îris | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Ῑ̓́ρῐδος tês Ī́ridos | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Ῑ̓́ρῐδῐ têi Ī́ridi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Ἶρῐν tḕn Îrin | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ἶρῐ Îri | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Ἶρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἶρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014
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