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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *tū́pʰā, often regarded as cognate with Latin tuber (“truffle”), English tuft and Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), all from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). However the meaning of the Greek word is sufficiently different to render its connection with the other words purely hypothetical.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tý.pʰɛː/ → /ˈty.ɸi/ → /ˈti.fi/
Noun
τύφη • (túphē) f (genitive τύφης); first declension
- plant used for stuffing bolsters and beds
- reedmace, cattail, bulrush (Typha angustifolia)
- sort of tiara
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Further reading
- “τύφη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τύφη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τύφη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN