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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *swet-, from *swé. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *svatъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /é.tɛːs/ → /ˈe.tis/ → /ˈe.tis/
Noun
ἔτης • (étēs) m (genitive ἔτου); first declension
- clansman
- private person; citizen
Inflection
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἔτης”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 475
- “ἔτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press