σκιδαφή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek. He further connects κίδαφος (kídaphos, “wily, cunning, sly”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sci.ðaˈɸi/ → /sci.ðaˈfi/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ski.daˈpʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sci.ðaˈɸi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sci.ðaˈfi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sci.ðaˈfi/

Noun

σκιδαφή • (skidaphḗ)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx, “fox”).

Further reading

• “σκιδαφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: σ