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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from
Late Egyptian (zꜣy,
“Sais”), from earlier
(zꜣw), probably ultimately from the verb
(zꜣw,
“to guard, to protect”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sá.is/ → /ˈsa.is/ → /ˈsa.is/
Proper noun
Σάϊς • (Sáïs) f (genitive Σάεως); third declension
- Sais, Egypt
Inflection
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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 1,024
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 420.1
- Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 182
