Search Results

It is a Greek derivative with the suffix -ītēs, plural -ītai. Whether his Oaditai are the Qur’anic ʻĀd is however debatable. … If they are the same name the initial O of the Greek form will require explanation. …

IE *sueigh- should become *εἱχ- in Greek. Beekes, Greek Etym. Dictionary, page 1327 suggests that σῖγα is "probably of onomatopoetic origin”. …

In Πενθέως the second syllable (-θέως) is scanned as a single long syllable. You can call it contraction or synaeresis.

This dissimilation occurs also in the word for "Sabbath" in Mediaeval Greek and in Slavic languages; it is thus assumed that Gothic borrowed the dissimilated form from Greek and then passed it on to West … the third day (Latin Mars), and pfinzda etc. come from Greek pempte, “fifth”. …

The spriantalisation of the Greek aspirated stops took place at different times in different dialects. …

In the case of orgē “anger” we do not happen to have any attested Greek dialect forms with w-, but IE *uerg- is supported by zero-grade forms like Sanskrit ūrj- “strength”. …

Yes. See this picture of the signature of Nikos Kazantzakis (Νίκος Καζαντζάκης) from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis#/media/File:Nikos-kazantzakis-signature.svg

The Modern Greek word was formed from Classical ὑπολογίζομαι "to take something into account", which of course comes from λόγος. http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl? …

LSJ write: “κρύφω late form of κρύπτω, only impf”. This imperfect looks like it is a back-formation from the aorist with -ps-.

When counting, the Greeks (like everyone else) obviously used their word for “one”; they did not read the names of the letters that were used as numerals (α´, β´, γ´ etc.). It could be debated which g …

Literally, ἅλς means ‘salt’ (with which it is cognate), but it is used metaphorically for ‘sea’. In compounds the stem is ἁλι-, by analogy to the –i stems.

The relationship between (let's say) Spanish and Latin is very much like that between Attic Greek and modern Demotic Greek. …

As you can see, this has no real similarity with the Greek ἀγαυός “admirable, noble”. The etymology of the latter is contested. …

τὰν πόλιν εὐδόκιμον is accusative because it is the subject of the infinitive ὑπάρξαι, “for the famous city to be at (his) beginning”.

the ability to translate into Latin and Greek (“composition”). … At university a large portion of students enrolled for Classics, and a small number of these went on to become professors of Greek and Latin. By this stage they were very fluent indeed. …