τυτώ
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editOnomatopoeic, rendering the cry of the owl. See also Latin tutubō (“to cry (of an owl)”) and Lithuanian tutúoti (“first flute, pipe”). Similarly in Greek τοῦτις (toûtis, “blackbird”) and ταύτασος (taútasos, “kind of bird”).
Pronunciation
edit- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tyˈto/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tyˈto/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tyˈto/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tiˈto/
Noun
editτυτώ • (tutṓ) f (genitive τυτοῦς); third declension
Inflection
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “τυτώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τυτώ 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