πίσσα

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *píťťa, suggested to be from Proto-Indo-European *píts-ih₂ ~ *pits-yéh₂, from *pī́ts (“resin”) +‎ *-ih₂, cognate with Albanian píshë (“pine tree”), and related to πίτυς (pítus, “pine”).^[1]^[2]^[3]

πίσσᾰ • (píssa) f (genitive πίσσης); first declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῐ́σσᾰ hē píssa	τὼ πῐ́σσᾱ tṑ píssā	αἱ πῐ́σσαι hai píssai
Genitive	τῆς πῐ́σσης tês píssēs	τοῖν πῐ́σσαιν toîn píssain	τῶν πῐσσῶν tôn pissôn
Dative	τῇ πῐ́σσῃ têi píssēi	τοῖν πῐ́σσαιν toîn píssain	ταῖς πῐ́σσαις taîs píssais
Accusative	τὴν πῐ́σσᾰν tḕn píssan	τὼ πῐ́σσᾱ tṑ píssā	τᾱ̀ς πῐ́σσᾱς tā̀s píssās
Vocative	πῐ́σσᾰ píssa	πῐ́σσᾱ píssā	πῐ́σσαι píssai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Greek: πίσσα (píssa)
Pontic Greek: πίσσα (píssa)
→ Ge'ez: ፔሳ (pesa, “pitch, tar”), ፒሳ (pisa)
→? Laz: ფისა (pisa)
→? Mingrelian: ფირსა (pirsa)
→? Old Georgian: ფისი (pisi)
- Georgian: ფისი (pisi)
  - → Armenian: փիս (pʻis), փիսի (pʻisi)
  - → Bats: ფის (pis)
  - → Ossetian: писи (pisi), песи (pesi)
→? Svan: ფისე (pise)
→ Turkish: pise, pusa, püse, bise, pis, püs, pus, piz, püz, pürz (dialectal)

^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “pei̯(ə)- pī̆- ,”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 793
^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 282: “*pikya”
^ Demiraj, B. (1997) “písh/ë,-a”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: ] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi

Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πίσσα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1197
“πίσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πίσσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
πίσσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

From Ancient Greek πίττα (pítta, “pitch, tar”).

πίσσα • (píssa) f (plural πίσσες)