δίζα
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editPossibly borrowed from a Paleo-Balkan language, from a tentative Proto-Indo-European *déygʰ-ih₂ ~ digʰ-yéh₂-s often connected to Proto-West Germanic *tigā (“she-goat”).[1][2][3]
Noun
edit- she-goat
- Synonym: αἴξ (aíx)
- 5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Δ:
- δίζα· αἴξ. Λάκωνες
- díza; aíx. Lákōnes
- díza: goat. [among] Laconians
References
edit- ^ Krahe, Hans (1955) Die Sprache der Illyrier (in German), volume I: Die Quellen, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 46
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “digh-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 222
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “δίζα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 333
Further reading
edit- “δίζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press