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Ancient Greek
- -ῑς (-īs)
- -τίς (-tís) — extended form
Etymology
Uncertain, but compare Latin -idus (forming adjectives). Furnée and Beekes also consider it a common Pre-Greek suffix, related to -ιτ- (-it-), -ινδ- (-ind-) and -ινθ- (-inth-).
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Pronunciation
Suffix
-ῐς • (-is) f (genitive -ῐδος); third declension
- Forms feminine nouns, or feminine forms of adjectives (often accented on the ultima)
- Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek man”) + -ις (-is) → Ἑλληνίς (Hellēnís, “Greek woman”)
- Ἰλλυριός (Illuriós, “Illyrian man”) + -ις (-is) → Ἰλλυρίς (Illurís, “Illyrian woman”)
Declension
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See also
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 843.b.2
- Furnée, Edzard Johan (1972) Die wichtigsten konsonantischen Erscheinungen des Vorgriechischen (Janua linguarum. Series practica; 150) (in German), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 324
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) “70 -ῑδ-”, in Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, § 2.3 The Suffixes, page 36