πτύσσω

Uncertain. Has been compared with Sanskrit प्युक्ष्नवेष्टित (pyukṣnaveṣṭita), but the connection is rather tenuous. May also be Pre-Greek, per Furnee; this is tentatively supported by Beekes.^[1]

πτῠ́σσω • (ptŭ́ssō)

1. to fold
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Fractures 8
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.439
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.111
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.252
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 4:20
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1611
2. (passive voice)
   • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Civil Wars 4.72
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 18.826
   • 170 CE – 240 CE, Herodian, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus 1.17.1
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On the Diseases of Women 1.69
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.134
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 872.3
3. (middle voice) to fold oneself around, wrap around
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 267

• “πτύσσω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πτύσσω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πτύσσω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πτύσσω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• πτύσσω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G4428 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible