Ionic Greek - Glossary

Glossary

  • ἄβδης ábdês scourge ( Hipponax .98)
  • ἄεθλον áethlon (Attic ἆθλον athlon prize)
  • ἀειναῦται aeinaûtai archontes in Miletus and Chalcis (aeí always + naûtai sailors)
  • ἀλγείη algeíē illness (Cf.Attic ἀλγηδών algēdṓn pain) Algophobia
  • ἄμπωτις ámpōtis ebb,being sucked back, i.e. of sea (Attic anápōtis, verb anapínō) (Koine,Modern Greek ampotis)
  • ἄνου anou (Attic ἄνω ánō, up)
  • Απατούρια Apatoúria Pan-ionic festival ( see also Panionium )
  • ἀππαλλάζειν appallázein (Attic ἐκκλησιάζειν ekklesiázein gather together,decide) (Doric apellazein)
  • ἀχάντιον achántion (Attic ἀκάνθιον akánthion small thorn acanthus)
  • βάθρακοι báthrakoi (Attic βάτραχοι bátrachoi, frogs) in Pontus babakoi
  • βροῦκος broûkos species of locust (Attic akrís) (Cypriots call the green locust βρούκα broúka)
  • βυσσός byssós (Attic βυθός bythós depth,bottom,chaos)
  • γάννος gánnos Ephesian (Attic huaina (glanos Aristotle.HA594a31.) (Phrygian and Tsakonian ganos
  • εἴδη eídē (Attic ὕλη hýle forest) (Aeolic Greek eide also) (Greek Eidos)
  • ἐνθαῦτα enthaûta here (entoutha also) (Attic ἐνταῦθα entaûtha) (Elean ἐνταῦτα entaûta)
  • ἐργύλος ergýlos (Attic ἐργάτηςergátēs worker)
  • ἑστιᾶχος hestiâchos ionic epithet for Zeus, related to Hestia (oikourós, housekeeper, οἰκῶναξ oikônax)
  • ἠγός ēgós (Attic εὐδαίμων eudaímon happy) (Hesychius s.v. εὐηγεσίη) (τ 114)
  • ἠέλιος êélios (Attic hḗlios sun) (Cretan abelios)
  • Ἰαστί Iastí, "the ionic way" ( Ἰάονες, Iáones, Ionians; Ἰάς, Iás, old name of Attica, Strabo IX, 1.5 )
  • ἴδη ídē forested mountain (Attic δρυμῶν ὄρος drymôn óros) (Herodotus 4,109,2) (Mount Ida)
  • ἰητρός iētrós,iētēr (Attic iatrós,iatēr doctor)
  • ἴκκος íkkos (Attic ἵππος híppos, horse) (Mycenaean i-qo )
  • κάρη kárē head (Common kara) (Poetic kras)
  • κιθών kithṓn (Attic χιτών chitṓn)
  • κοεῖν koeîn (Attic νοεῖν noeîn to think) noesis
  • κοῖος koîos (Attic ποῖος poîos who?)
  • κύθρη kýthrē (Attic χύτρα chýtra cooking pot)
  • μύτταξ mýttax (Attic πώγων pṓgōn beard)
  • Ξουθίδαι Xouthidai Ionians from Xuthus
  • ὀδμή odmḗ (Attic ὀσμή osmḗ scent, smell)
  • πηλός pēlós thick wine, lees (Attic πηλός pelós mud, silt) (proverbial phrase mê dein ton Oinea Pêlea poiein, don't make wine into lees, Ath.9.383c, cf. Demetr.Eloc.171)
  • ῥηχίη rhêchíê flood-tide, loanword to Attic as ῥαχία rhachía (Homeric,Koine,Modern Greek πλημμυρίς plêmmurís -ída)
  • σαβακός sabakís (Attic σαθρός sathrís decayed) Chian
  • σάρμοι sármoi lupins (Attic θέρμοιthermoi} Carystian
  • σκορπίζω skorpízô scatter, disperse (probably from skorpios scorpion and an obsolete verb skerpô, penetrate)
  • ταῦροι taûuroi (Attic tauroi bulls) (Ephesian word, the youths who acted as cupbearers at the local festival of Poseidon)
  • φοινικήια phoinikḗia grámmata Lydians and Ionians called so the letters
  • χλοσσός chlossós (Attic ἰχθύς ichthús fish)
  • ὦ οἰοῖ ô oioî exclamation of discontent ἐπιφώνημα σχετλιαστικὸν παρ' Ἴωσι

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