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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly related to Old Armenian գետին (getin, “ground, earth”) and Hittite 𒌓𒉈𒂊 (ut-ne-e /utnē/, “land, country”). Possibly connected to οὐδός (oudós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ûː.das/ → /ˈu.ðas/ → /ˈu.ðas/
Noun
οὖδᾰς • (oûdas) n (genitive οὔδεος); third declension
- ground, earth
- floor
Declension
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Further reading
- “οὖδας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οὖδας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- οὖδας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “οὖδας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.