Σάϊς

Ancient Greek

Etymology
Borrowed from Late Egyptian
z
zA		 iiniwt
 (zꜣy, “Sais”), from earlier
z
zA		 Awniwt
 (zꜣw), probably ultimately from the verb
A47AwA24
 (zꜣw, “to guard, to protect”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Σάϊς • (Sáïs) f (genitive Σάεως); third declension

  1. Sais, Egypt

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Σάϊς; τῆς Σάεως (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Σάϊς
hē Sáïs
Genitive τῆς Σάεως
tês Sáeōs
Dative τῇ Σάει
têi Sáei
Accusative τὴν Σάϊν
tḕn Sáïn
Vocative Σάϊ
Sáï
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: Σάις (Sáis)
  • → Latin: Saïs

Further reading
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 420.1
  • Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 182
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.