οὔθα
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from Paleo-Balkan, closely related to Albanian udhë (“path, way, road”).[1]
Noun edit
οὔθα • (oútha)
- (hapax) dust (?); path, way, road
- 5th century C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Ο.1602:
- οὔθα· σποδός, ὁδός
- oútha; spodós, hodós
- oútha: dust, path
References edit
- ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor[1], page 41
Further reading edit
- “οὔθα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press