πίσσα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *píťťa, suggested to be from Proto-Indo-European *píts-ih₂ ~ *pits-yéh₂, from *pī́ts (resin) + *-ih₂, cognate with Albanian píshë (pine tree), and related to πίτυς (pítus, pine).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

πίσσᾰ • (píssa) f (genitive πίσσης); first declension

  1. pitch
  2. resin used for treating wine jars

Inflection

Derived terms

  • πισσαλιφής (pissaliphḗs)
  • πισσαλοιφέω (pissaloiphéō)
  • πίσσανθος (píssanthos)
  • πισσάριον (pissárion)
  • πισσάσφαλτος (pissásphaltos)
  • πισσέλαιον (pissélaion)
  • πισσήεις (pissḗeis)
  • πισσήρης (pissḗrēs)
  • πισσηρός (pissērós)
  • πίσσησις (píssēsis)
  • πισσίζω (pissízō)
  • πίσσινος (píssinos)
  • πισσίον (pissíon)
  • πίσσιος (píssios)
  • πισσίτης (pissítēs)
  • πισσοειδής (pissoeidḗs)
  • πισσοκάμινος (pissokáminos)
  • πισσόκαπνος (pissókapnos)
  • πισσοκαυτέω (pissokautéō)
  • πισσόκηρος (pissókēros)
  • πισσοκοπέω (pissokopéō)
  • πισσοκώνητος (pissokṓnētos)
  • πισσοκωνία (pissokōnía)
  • πισσοτρόφος (pissotróphos)
  • πισσουργός (pissourgós)
  • πισσόχριστος (pissókhristos)
  • πισσόω (pissóō)
  • πισσώδης (pissṓdēs)
  • πίσσωσις (píssōsis)
  • πισσωτής (pissōtḗs)
  • πισσωτός (pissōtós)
  • πιττάκιον (pittákion)

Descendants

  • Greek: πίσσα (píssa)
  • Pontic Greek: πίσσα (píssa)
  • Ge'ez: ፔሳ (pesa, pitch, tar), ፒሳ (pisa)
  • ? Laz: ფისა (pisa)
  • ? Mingrelian: ფირსა (pirsa)
  • ? Old Georgian: ფისი (pisi)
    • Georgian: ფისი (pisi)
      • Armenian: փիս (pʻis), փիսի (pʻisi)
      • Bats: ფის (pis)
      • Ossetian: писи (pisi), песи (pesi)
  • ? Svan: ფისე (pise)
  • Turkish: pise, pusa, püse, bise, pis, püs, pus, piz, püz, pürz (dialectal)

References

  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “pei̯(ə)- pī̆- ,”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 793
  2. Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 282:*pikya
  3. Demiraj, B. (1997) “písh/ë,-a”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: []] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πίττα (pítta, pitch, tar).

Noun

πίσσα • (píssa) f (plural πίσσες)

  1. tar, pitch, coal tar
  2. black
  3. (Cyprus) thrush

Declension

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Further reading

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