ἀάνθα

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from *αὐσ-άνθα (*aus-ántha), from the root of οὖς (oûs, “ear”), but the suffix is unclear.[1] Alternatively from a Proto-Albanian *awántha whence Albanian vath (“earring”).[2]

Noun

ἀάνθα • (aántha) f

  1. (hapax) a kind of earring
    Synonym: ἐνώτιον (enṓtion)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀάνθα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 2
  2. ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor‎, page 40

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