Βάρδυλις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Βάρδυλλις (Bárdullis)

Etymology

From Illyrian. Widely connected to Albanian bardhë (“white”)^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] and Messapic *barzides, although a more scrupulous investigation would note the unusual and rather early deaffricativisation of the original *-ǵ- into what Greek authors heard as -δ- (-d-). A noteworthy mention is also the similarity with the Illyrian tribe Bardaeī, which as variant of Vardaeī, Vardiaeī, Ἀρδιαῖοι (Ardiaîoi), Οὐαρδαῖοι (Ouardaîoi) points to the plosivisation of an original initial *w-.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bár.dy.lis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.dy.lis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβar.ðy.lis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvar.ðy.lis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvar.ði.lis/

Proper noun

Βάρδῠλις • (Bárdulis) m (genitive Βαρδῠ́λῐδος); third declension

Bardylis: a chief of the Illyrians defeated by Philip of Macedonia

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Βάρδῠλῐς; τοῦ Βαρδῠ́λῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Βάρδῠλῐς ho Bárdulis
Genitive	τοῦ Βαρδῠ́λῐδος toû Bardúlidos
Dative	τῷ Βαρδῠ́λῐδῐ tôi Bardúlidi
Accusative	τὸν Βαρδῠ́λῐδᾰ tòn Bardúlida
Vocative	Βάρδῠλῐς Bárdulis
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.

Descendants

Greek: Βάρδυλις (Várdylis)
→ Latin: Bardylis
→ Albanian: Bardhyl, Bardhyll

References

^ Alexandru Rosetti (1973) Brève histoire de la langue roumaine des origines à nos jours (in French), →DOI, page 52
^ Pavle Ivić (1985) Zbornik Šeste jugoslovenske onomastičke konferencije: Donji Milanovac, page 59
^ Demiraj, B. (1997) “bárdhë”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎^[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 90
^ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 220, 238