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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Thracian *briza (“spelt, rye”).[1] Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *breǵʰ-, related to Norwegian brok (“kind of grass”), or related to Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi, “grain, rice”), ὄρυζα (óruza, “rice”), but this is less likely.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bríz.da/ → /ˈβri.za/ → /ˈvri.za/
Noun
βρίζᾰ • (bríza) f (genitive βρίζης); first declension
- rye (Secale cereale) in Thrace and Macedonia
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Duridanov, Ivan Vasiliev (1985) Die Sprache der Thraker [The Language of the Thracians] (in German), Hieronymus Verlag, →ISBN, page 11
- ^ Katičić, R., Križman, M. (1976). Ancient Languages of the Balkans. Netherlands: Mouton, p. 139
Further reading
- “βρίζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βρίζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Whatmough, Joshua (1950) The Dialects of Ancient Gaul, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, published 1970, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1185
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.