ῥίμφα

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Hellenic *wrenkʷʰa, from Proto-Indo-European *wrengʷʰ-, whence Proto-Germanic *wringaną (“to squeeze, wring”) and Lithuanian rangus (“flexible”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ím.pʰa/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈrim.pʰa/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈrim.ɸa/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈrim.fa/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈrim.fa/

Adverb

ῥίμφᾰ • (rhímpha)

fast, quickly

References

Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ῥίμφα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1286

Further reading

“ῥίμφα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ῥίμφα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ῥίμφα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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