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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally it has been connected with βαθύς (bathús, “deep”), as an e-grade root variant but Furnée doesn't dismiss a Pre-Greek origin and links the noun to the gloss βρῆσσαι (brêssai) found in Hesychius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛ̂ːs.sa/ → /ˈβis.sa/ → /ˈvi.sa/
Noun
βῆσσᾰ • (bêssa) f (genitive βήσσης); first declension
- wooded combe, glen
- kind of drinking cup used in Egypt
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Further reading
- “βῆσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βῆσσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βῆσσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βῆσσα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 212