See also: Σίδη

Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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According to Furnée, all the variations prove a Pre-Greek origin, after Witczak specifically borrowed from Western Anatolian. Also passed as far as Albanian shegë, to which the form κυσήγη (kusḗgē) once mentioned without contextualization is in any case ancestral. Linked to the reconstruction *sida "red", which has also been suggested as the root of σίδηρος (sídēros), "iron."

Pronunciation

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Noun

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σίδη (sídēf (genitive σῑ́δης); first declension

  1. pomegranate (tree and fruit)
    Synonym: ῥόα (rhóa)
  2. kind of waterplant growing near Orchomenus, water lily

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • σίδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • σίδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • σίδη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz, Zadka, Małgorzata (2014) “Ancient greek σίδη as a borrowing from a Pre-Greek substratum / On the Anatolian origin of Ancient Greek σίδη”, in Graeco-Latina Brunensia, volume 19, numbers 1–2, pages 113–126 and 131–139