μέθυ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; mead”). Cognates include Sanskrit मधु (mádhu, “honey”), Lithuanian medùs, Old Church Slavonic медъ (medŭ, “honey”), and Old English medu (English mead).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.tʰy/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.tʰy/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.θy/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.θy/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.θi/
Inflection
Declension of μέθῠ, μέθῠος
| Case / # | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | μέθῠ |
| Genitive | μέθῠος |
| Dative | μέθῠῐ̈ |
| Accusative | μέθῠ |
| Vocative | μέθῠ |
Synonyms
- οἶνος (oînos)
Derived terms
- ἀμέθυστος (améthustos)
Descendants
- Greek: μέθη (méthi)
References
- μέθυ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μέθυ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μέθυ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μέθυ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μέθυ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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