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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *hūyús. Cognate with Old Armenian ուստր (ustr), Tocharian A se, Tocharian B soy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hyː.ýs/ → /yˈys/ → /iˈis/
Noun
υἱύς • (huiús) m (genitive υἱέος); third declension
- Early Attic form of υἱός (huiós, “son”)
Inflection
References
- “υἱός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Wilhelm Klein (1887) Die griechischen Vasen mit Meister-signaturen, 2nd edition, Wien: Carl Gerold’s Sohn, page 72: “”.