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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of unknown substrate origin, traced back to Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ (“woven container”) only with Middle Irish cess (“basket, causeway of wickerwork, beehive”), Old Welsh cest (“basket”). Bernal suggests, with formal problems as usual, borrowing from Egyptian qrsw (“coffin”) or qrst (“burial”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kís.tɛː/ → /ˈcis.ti/ → /ˈcis.ti/
Noun
κῐ́στη • (kístē) f (genitive κῐ́στης); first declension
- box, chest, casket
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “κίστη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίστη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κίστη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κίστη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κίστη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κίστη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 705
- Bernal, Martin (2006) Black Athena. Volume III. The Linguistic Evidence, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 447