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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁dʰ- (“grandparent”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *dědъ (“grandfather”), Lithuanian dė̃dė, dė̃dis (“uncle”), and Latvian dȩ̀ds (“old man”). Probably originally an onomatopoeia of babies' speech.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛ̌ː.tʰɛː/ → /ˈti.θi/ → /ˈti.θi/
Noun
τήθη • (tḗthē) f (genitive τήθης); first declension
- grandmother
- Synonym: μᾰ́μμη (mắmmē)
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References
Further reading
- “τήθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τήθη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Chantraine, Pierre (1968–1980) “τήθη”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Paris: Klincksieck, page 1113
- τήθη, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011