πέρυσι

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

πέρρυσ (pérrhus) – Aeolic
πέρυτι (péruti) – Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peruti (“last year”, literally “on the other side of a year”), from a compound of *per (“through, across”) + *ut(i), locative singular from *wet- (“year”); compare ἔτος (étos, “year”)(< *wetos). Cognate with Sanskrit परुत् (parut, “last year”), Proto-Germanic *ferudi (“last year”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.ry.si/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.ry.si/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ry.si/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ry.si/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ri.si/

Adverb

πέρυσι • (pérusi)

a year ago, last year

References

πέρυσι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πέρυσι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
πέρυσι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G4070 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ago idem, page 19.
- last idem, page 477.
- year idem, page 995.
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

Greek

Alternative forms

πέρσι (pérsi)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέρυσι (pérusi).

Adverb

πέρυσι • (pérysi)

last year (the year before the present one)

Coordinate terms

φέτος (fétos, “this year”)
του χρόνου (tou chrónou, “next year”)
προσεχές έτος (prosechés étos, “next year”)

Related terms

περσινός (persinós, “last year”, adj)

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