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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Thracian *būzas (“he-goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, he-goat”).[1][2] Compare Persian بز (boz), English buck.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /by̌ːz.daːs/ → /ˈβy.zas/ → /ˈvi.zas/
Proper noun
Βῡ́ζᾱς • (Bū́zās) m (genitive Βῡ́ζᾰντος); third declension
- a male given name from Thracian: Byzas, legendary founder of Byzantium
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References
- ^ Georgacas, Demetrius John (1947) “The Names of Constantinople”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 78, The Johns Hopkins University Press, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 347–67
- ^ Duridanov, Ivan Vasiliev (1985) Die Sprache der Thraker (in German), volume 2, Hieronymus Verlag, →ISBN, page 11
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