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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The word is related to similar words meaning "foxes", like ψειαί (pseiaí), ψίαι (psíai), φοῦαι (phoûai) and φύλλες (phúlles). These variations cannot be all understood in Indo-European terms. The connection with ὀσφῦς (osphûs, “hips or loins”), suggested by Prellwitz, is quite possible. According to Beekes, the word is clearly Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psó.aː/ → /ˈpso.a/ → /ˈpso.a/
Noun
ψόᾱ • (psóā) f (genitive ψόᾱς); first declension
- (anatomy) muscles of the loins
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ψόα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ψόα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ψόαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1669