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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *spugeh₂. Cognates include Latin pūga, Old High German fochen, and Old Church Slavonic паоуга (pauga), пѫга (pǫga).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pyː.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /pyˈʝi/ → /piˈʝi/
Noun
πῡγή • (pūgḗ) f (genitive πῡγῆς, diminutive πυγαῖον or πυγίδιον); first declension
- rump, buttocks
- (figuratively) fat, swelling land
- = οὐρά (ourá, “tail”)
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Further reading
- “πυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.