Μοῖρις
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Μῠῆρῐς (Muêris) — 3rd century BCE
- Μοῆρῐς (Moêris) — 2nd century BCE onward
- Μεῦρῐς (Meûris) — attested once, 228 BCE
Etymology
Borrowed from Egyptian mr-wr (“Moeris”),
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Pronunciation
Originally /my.ɛ̂ː.ris/ or /mo.ɛ̂ː.ris/; through iotacism the eta subsequently became an iota by late Ptolemaic times:
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /môi̯.ris/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ris/
Proper noun
Μοῖρῐς • (Moîris) f (genitive Μοίρῐδος); third declension
- Lake Moeris, Egypt
- the town of Moeris near Crocodilopolis (modern Faiyum)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Μοῖρῐς hē Moîris | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Μοίρῐδος tês Moíridos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Μοίρῐδῐ têi Moíridi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Μοίρῐδᾰ tḕn Moírida | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Μοῖρῐς Moîris | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017
- Vandorpe, Katelijn (2004) “The Henet of Moeris and the Ancient Administrative Division of the Fayum in two parts” in Archiv für Papyrusforschung 50/1, p. 61-78