κυσήγη
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from a Proto-Albanian *kušēgā, whence Albanian shegë (“pomegranate”).[1]
Noun edit
κυσήγη • (kusḗgē) f
- (hapax) pomegranate
- Synonym: ῥόα (rhóa)
- 5th century C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Κ.4730:
- κυσήγη· ῥοιά
- kusḗgē; rhoiá
- kusḗgē: pomegranate
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
- “κυσήγη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press