σῦς

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • ὗς (hûs)prose, Poetic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *súHs (swine); doublet of ὗς (hûs). The reason for the survival of initial /s/ in this form is unknown.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

σῦς (sûsm or f (genitive σῠός); third declension

  1. pig; swine; hog

Inflection

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σῦς, συός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1425

Further reading

  • σῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • σῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • σῦς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 612