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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek. The connection with ψάω (psáō, “to rub, grate”) is hardly possible. The suffix -ήν can be found also in κηφήν (kēphḗn, “drone”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psɛ̌ːn/ → /psin/ → /psin/
Noun
ψήν • (psḗn) m (genitive ψηνός); third declension
- gall wasp (insect of the family Cynipidae)
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Further reading
- “ψήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ψήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ψήν 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