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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Liddell and Scott propose Sanskrit दृषद् (dṛṣad) as a cognate. However, Pokorny argues for an origin from Proto-Indo-European *gʷer-, citing Sanskrit गिरि (giri) as a cognate. Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deː.rás/ → /ðiˈras/ → /ðiˈras/
Noun
δειρᾰ́ς • (deirás) f (genitive δειρᾰ́δος); third declension
- The ridge of a column of hills
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References
- “δειράς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δειράς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δειράς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δειράς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “δειράς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.