τήθυον
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- τήθεον (tḗtheon)
Etymology[edit]
Kalén assumes earlier *θή-θυον (*thḗ-thuon) and connects the word with θῆσθαι (thêsthai) (which is from the root of θάω (tháō, “to suck”)) and with θύλακος (thúlakos, “sack”). This explanation is nonsensical and typical of older Greek etymologies. According to Beekes, it is more probably a Pre-Greek word, given the variation υ/ε.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tɛ̌ː.tʰy.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈte̝.tʰy.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.θy.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.θy.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.θi.on/
Noun[edit]
τήθῠον • (tḗthuon) n (genitive τηθῠ́ου); second declension
- sea squirt (tunicate of the class Ascidiacea)
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ τήθῠον tò tḗthuon |
τὼ τηθῠ́ω tṑ tēthúō |
τᾰ̀ τήθῠᾰ tà tḗthua | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τηθῠ́ου toû tēthúou |
τοῖν τηθῠ́οιν toîn tēthúoin |
τῶν τηθῠ́ων tôn tēthúōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τηθῠ́ῳ tôi tēthúōi |
τοῖν τηθῠ́οιν toîn tēthúoin |
τοῖς τηθῠ́οις toîs tēthúois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ τήθῠον tò tḗthuon |
τὼ τηθῠ́ω tṑ tēthúō |
τᾰ̀ τήθῠᾰ tà tḗthua | ||||||||||
Vocative | τήθῠον tḗthuon |
τηθῠ́ω tēthúō |
τήθῠᾰ tḗthua | ||||||||||
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Descendants[edit]
- → Translingual: Tethya
Further reading[edit]
- “τήθυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τήθυον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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