ὑρτήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /yrˈtir/ → /irˈtir/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)yrˈte̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yrˈtir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yrˈtir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /irˈtir/

Noun

ὑρτήρ • (hurtḗr)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: πλυνεύς (pluneús, “clothes-cleaner”).

Further reading

• “ὑρτήρ”, 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: υ