ἕψω

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

The verb is clearly related to Old Armenian եփեմ (epʻem, to boil, cook). However, as Armenian փ- (pʻ-) can hardly represent *ps-, it has been suggested an Indo-European pre-form *sepʰ-, which would have had an s-enlargement in Greek. However, Indo-European did not possess a phoneme pʰ-: this leads to a substrate origin, probably Pre-Greek according to Beekes. For this, compare δέφω (déphō, to soften, knead).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Verb

ἕψω (hépsō)

  1. to boil, seethe
    Synonyms: βρᾰ́σσω (brássō), ζέω (zéō)

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References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἔψω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 492

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