Βαῖτις
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Villar, from an Old European Hydronym *bai-t-, also found in the place name Biturgia.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bâi̯.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβɛ.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈve.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈve.tis/
Proper noun
Βαῖτῐς • (Baîtis) m (genitive Βαίτῐος); third declension
- Baetis, Guadalquivir (a river in southern Spain)
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Villar: Indoeuropeos y no indoeuropeos en la Hispania prerromana, Francisco Villar, Salamanca 2000
Further reading
- Βαῖτις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004